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nightworldkrp ยท 1 year
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๐‘ซ๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’†๐’”๐’• ๐‘ซ๐’˜๐’†๐’๐’๐’†๐’“๐’”, ๐’•๐’‰๐’† ๐’‡๐’๐’๐’๐’๐’˜๐’Š๐’๐’ˆ ๐’Ž๐’†๐’Ž๐’ƒ๐’†๐’“๐’” ๐’‰๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’„๐’‰๐’๐’”๐’†๐’ ๐’•๐’ ๐’๐’†๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐‘ต๐’Š๐’ˆ๐’‰๐’• ๐‘พ๐’๐’“๐’๐’…, ๐’‰๐’‚๐’—๐’† ๐’‡๐’‚๐’๐’๐’†๐’ ๐’Š๐’๐’•๐’ ๐’Š๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’•๐’Š๐’—๐’Š๐’•๐’š, ๐’๐’“ ๐’„๐’‰๐’‚๐’๐’ˆ๐’†๐’… ๐’•๐’‰๐’†๐’Š๐’“ ๐’‚๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’†.
โ€”EXO Kai โ€”BTOBย Minhyuk โ€”NCTย Haechan โ€”NCTย Renjun โ€”Stray Kidsย Felix โ€”WJSNย Cheng Xiao โ€”Ulzzangย Xiu Akay
The Storyโ€”Rulesโ€”Masterlist
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krp1x1finder ยท 9 months
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discord kpop 1x1 rp search
heyooo! iโ€™m yumi, age 23, they/them! iโ€™m currently lf a few krp/kdrama partners, preferably within the age range of 19-23+! itโ€™s safe to say that iโ€™m open to any pairings such as mxm, fxf, poly, and trans/non-binary characters, oc x oc (faceclaims ok!) - i will say that i do have a preference for writing masculine characters and will often default to that unless discussed.
my writing style is always mirrored, so donโ€™t be shy if youโ€™d like to write with me in any way, shape, or form! my preference tends to lean towards novella and advanced lit (comfortably up to 500-1k or more) with present or past, third-person narratives. i have some writing examples i can send your way if youโ€™d like to see them before committing to rp with me! i typically want to strive for quality over quantity.
หš เผ˜โ™ก โ‹†๏ฝกหš PLOTS : regarding plots that i enjoy tend to lean super heavily into the human condition (any variation or avenue of slice of life, modern aus), very lightly toeing into supernatural with succubuses/incubus or angel/devils, fallen angel concepts, and โ€œdarkerโ€ themes. some examples would be religious trauma/historical themes, substance abuse, violence, heavy angst, etc.
i also really enjoy media-based or established works of fictions like ao3, video games (the last of us, detroit become human, etc), films, and kdramas (strangers from hell, all of us are dead, the glory, bloodhounds, and more).ย 
iโ€™m totally interested in including nsfw into our rps aswell, though i tend to write my characters as versatile switches and would prefer if my partners were flexible and willing to collaborate to make it fun and comfortable for both of us. i will send a kink list to be as transparent as possible, or you can view that on my carrd alongside other in depth info here!
หš เผ˜โ™ก โ‹†๏ฝกหš MUSES & GROUPS : iโ€™m open to a majority of groups including, but not limited to the ones listed below! regarding muses, iโ€™m very open-minded and flexible and will include some examples of those i muse the most. the starred groups are the ones that i muse very heavily for currently:
โ˜† aespa : winter / karina / ningning
ateez : wooyoung / san / yunho
enhypen : jay / heeseung / jungwon / jake
โ˜† exo : jongin / sehun / chanyeol / baekhyun
le sserafim : sakura / chaewon
โ˜† nct (all subunits+wayv) : taeyong / yuta / jaehyun / jeno / mark / donghyuck / jaemin / xiaojun / kun / yangyang
oneus : seoho / keonhee / xion
โ˜† onlyoneof : nine / love / mill / rie
p1harmony : theo / intak
โ˜† seventeen : jeonghan / jun / seungkwan / vernon / joshua / minghao
โ˜† stray kids : minho / hyunjin / han / bangchan / jeonginย 
tempest : hanbin / taerae / hyeongseop / hwarang
โ˜† the boyz : sunwoo / hyunjae / juyeon / jacob / eric
โ˜† txt : soobin / beomgyu / taehyun treasure : asahi / jihoon / hyunsuk
โ˜† xg : jurin / chisa
โ˜† zb1 : jiwoong / hanbin / matthew / taerae
solo artists : woodz, dpr ian, jackson wang, and moreย  . .
(these arenโ€™t including my ships, but you might be able to get hints from who i bolded - donโ€™t be afraid to ask for clarification though, iโ€™ll definitely mention them once we connect).
please prioritise discussing triggers and preferences within the RP. they will always be stated by me during plotting as well. my triggers are only detailed self-harm/gore that goes alongside it. iโ€™ll let you know if Iโ€™m uncomfortable at any point otherwise.
หš เผ˜โ™ก โ‹†๏ฝกหš MISC. NOTES : the most important part of this i would like to make sure is noted is that writing wonโ€™t always be a priority for me as i have other hobbies and responsibilities that tend to take up a lot of my free time too. i work two jobs while also taking classes from my university and gaming. iโ€™d appreciate and prefer partners that donโ€™t mind gaps of time between responses and wonโ€™t spam or pressure me to be quicker. iโ€™ve had some bad luck with rp partners that donโ€™t understand that and overstep boundaries. i will end the rp if it gets excessive. however, iโ€™m very chatty and enjoy making playlists and pinterest boards alongside our rp auโ€™s so itโ€™d be cool to have partners open to that sort of connection. iโ€™m always down for friendships outside of our rp too so the gaps of time donโ€™t feel awkward or stilted.
if all of this sounds good to you and youโ€™re interested in getting to know me as a potential friend or likewise to write, donโ€™t hesitate to interact with this post on here, directly message me, or head on over to discord and add me; my username is gyumie. โ™ก
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kaisooficrec ยท 6 months
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Nini Planet Round 25 (The Other World)
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The theme for this round is: Supernatural AU.
soon, my love
Genre: College AU, Friends With Benefits, Fluff, Ghosts, First Love
Rating: R
Length: 7,000 w
Summary: Jongin is seeing and hearing things, Kyungsoo tries to help.
actually...
Genre: Fairies
Rating: R
Length: 2,336 w
Warning: Suicide Attempt
Summary: Kyungsoo only wanted to put an end to โ€œit.โ€ But now thereโ€™s a little fairy (?) who is begging for his help, and Kyungsoo at least wants to help one fairy (?) before the final good-bye.
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iridescentxstars ยท 6 months
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เณƒโ€โžท ๐Š๐ž๐ฒ: [M] โ€” Mature content/warnings | ๐ŸŒน โ€” NSFW | โœจ โ€” Rewritten | ๐ŸŒธ โ€” Recommended
๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐จ๐ซ-๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฒ. ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ–, ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฏ๐ž.
This masterlist contains all series that are not yet completed and are due to be completed. Some of the series may be rewritten but the old versions will still be available to read if you wish.
เณƒโ€โžท Kim Jongin | BangChan | On-Going Series | Completed Series | Drabbles | Misc
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เฉˆโœฉโ€งโ‚Šหš ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ
[ โœง.* ][M] Taste Of Sin โ€” demon!jongin x reader [due to be rewritten] ๐ŸŒนโœจ [ โœง.* ][M] Welcome To Wonderland โ€” mafia!jongin x immortal!reader | detective!bangchan x stripper!irene | bartender!san x bartender!yura [due to be rewritten] ๐ŸŒนโœจ [ โœง.* ][M] ฤ€ttฤck ร˜f Thฤ— Clรธnฤ—s Vs. Sฤ—nรธlc ฤ–ht Fรธ Kcฤttฤ โ€” power!jongin x reader | clone!kฤi x reader ๐ŸŒน [ โœง.* ][M] No Manners โ€” mafia!jongin x parent!reader ๐ŸŒน [ โœง.* ][M] Fate โ€” werewolf!jongin x half breed!reader [created by @aala-13jellychocolate] [ โœง.* ] Winner Takes All โ€” ceo!jongin x teacher!reader ๐ŸŒน [ โœง.* ][M] Dirty Little Secrets โ€” stripper!jongin x college!alice | college!san x college!lydia [due to rewritten] ๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒธโœจ -> more to come
เฉˆโœฉโ€งโ‚Šหš ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ข-๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ
[ โœง.* ][M] Opposites Attract โ€” various!idols x various!readers [due to be rewritten] ๐ŸŒนโœจ [ โœง.* ][M] Single Dads Need Love Too โ€” various!idols x various!readers [due to be rewritten] ๐ŸŒนโœจ [ โœง.* ][M] Supernatural Beings โ€” various!idols x various!ocs [due to be rewritten] ๐ŸŒนโœจ [ โœง.* ][M] Becoming His โ€” incubus!jongin x reader ๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒธ [ โœง.* ][M] Meet The Wolf Pack โ€” werewolf!idols x various!ocs [due to be rewritten] ๐ŸŒนโœจ [ โœง.* ][M] Jekyll & Hyde โ€” various!idols x various!readers [due to be rewritten] โœจ [ โœง.* ] Baby, Don't Cry [part one] [part two.1] [part two.2] โ€” idol!jongin x stylist!reader | idol!jongin x idol!jennie [side] [ โœง.* ][M] Mรฉnage ร  Trois โ€” dancer!jongin x reader x model!kai ๐ŸŒน [ โœง.* ][M] 2022 โ€” Year Of The Villain โ€” various!idols x various!readers ๐ŸŒน๐ŸŒธ
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clubwnderland ยท 2 years
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Something has gone wrong, incredibly wrong and the twins look at each other in absolute terror before looking at everyone that had gathered at Wonderland for a lovely dinner catered by Irene. They were deep into the mess before Yangyang realised what he had done. Maybe he should have read the bottle before pouring it into everyone's cups earlier.
"What did you do?" Chan yells at Yangyang, who is still holding the bottle in his hands before trying to hide it but Alice is faster, using her telekinesis to get the bottle away from the male witch. "What the fuck is this?"
Ryujin looks at the group, swallowing the lump in her throat and elbowing a nervously laughing Yangyang in the ribs. "Yang and I... well, we were working on a potion that would allow us to swap powers with those who drank it."
"Like a body swap but you keep your body... and take on whatever the other person is." Yangyang finishes while Ryujin nods.
"We were trying to find a way to escape our coven in an emergency. The effects last about a week or so, maybe more, before beginning to fade so it would have given us enough time to hide while they hunted the wrong person."
Jongin growls, slamming his hand on the table, "stop yapping and tell us what that means for us." Jangmi grabs his arm to keep him from lunging at Yangyang who looks like he's about to laugh his ass off and run away in fear.
"I had been working on something that would help our supernatural, fast-healing friends to get a buzz tonight but I, maybe, possibly, definitely, grabbed the wrong bottle and-" He jumps out of the way as Kai hurls a knife at him.
"KAI!"
The clone glares at Alice, "do you realise what they've just done? You going to be fine not being able to read everyone's mind or flicking your wrist and grabbing things? You think you can handle Hyunrin like that?"
Kai finds himself on the ground as Alice squints and causes the male to fly backwards without warning. "Don't you dare question my parenting abilities."
Irene, who had remained quiet, stands up, clearing her throat and the chaos that was going to begin, with everyone raising their voices, immediately quietens as the Queen of Hell starts to speak. "So, how long until we know what we are dealing with?"
The twins look at each other before looking at everyone else, "maybe an hour, maybe less. We haven't actually tested it out and we don't know how it'll work with a group this big."
"Fucking great." Jongin huffs, leaning back in his chair.
Time ticks by slowly, everyone remaining silent while Irene sits on her phone to get things organised and Juyeon and Chan try to do some damage control with the club. Nobody notices the effects taking place until Jangmi yelps in surprise, Seohyun looking over at her as her tail disappears and tries to shift - only to find nothing happens.
"Here we go." Chris raises a glass, smiling sadly as he feels his connection to his pack fading.
"Good luck to us all," Irene sighs, wondering how they are all going to survive their crazy new lives.
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Chaos has fallen in Wonderland this Halloween with the muses unable to be themselves completely. Some will adjust rather well while others are going to have a hard time. This can affect chats if you want it to, you are welcome to have a fun little side chat or add it for a later date - or not at all. Up to you so please let admin know.
Please remember that this may affect how a muse responds on dash and behaviours due to different emotions surrounding this. They will still be living their own lives but just not having their usual abilities.
Irene: Devil -> Werewolf with connections to the moon [in heat] Chan: Demon who controls the 7 deadly sins -> Witch San: Human -> Devil Juyeon: Prince of Hell -> Reaper Moonbyul: Hellhound -> Witch Jongin: Werewolf who shifts without pain -> Fox Hybrid [not in rut] Jangmi: Fox Hybrid -> Werewolf who shifts without pain [in heat] Yangyang: Witch -> Fallen Angel Seohyun: Cat Hybrid -> Telepathy/Telekinesis Johnny: Incubus -> Prince of Hell Eunwoo: Fallen Angel -> Human Chris: Werewolf with connections to the moon -> Incubus Kai: Teleportation -> Human Alice: Telepathy/Telekinesis -> Demon who controls the 7 deadly sins Seonghwa: Human -> Hellhound [not in rut] Jeno: Human -> Teleportation Ryujin: Witch -> Cat Hybrid Mingi: Reaper -> Human
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moonlightjongin ยท 2 years
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Storge (Jonginโ€™s Series Of Love)
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โ™ก Pairing -- Kim Jongin x Reader โ™ก Genre -- Supernatural, Fluff, Angst โ™ก AUs -- Guardian Angel!AU, Heaven!AU โ™ก Description -- (concept)ย โ€˜Storgeโ€™ is the Greek word for the natural affection people feel for those closest to them. Storge is a love that exists between parents and their children but can go beyond this, storge can also be displayed in companions, and exceptionally close friends. It is said that storge is a casual form of love usually based in memories; storge is an underlying love driven by the desire to compassionately care for another. (summary)ย ...Your Guardian Angel Jongin, who has been guiding you from afar all this while, hopes with everything in him that heโ€™s done a good job with that, vowing to continue doing so as you take upon yourself a very new challenge, working alongside him in the realms of aether. โ™ก Wordcount -- 11,414 words. โ™ก Warnings -- Non-descriptive mentions of dying, descriptions of grief, blood/injuries. โ™ก A/N -- Feedback is very welcome and very appreciated. โ™ก
Main Masterlist ||ย Series Of Love Masterlist || ๐Ÿน also in the series... Storge (familial love; natural affection). Philautia (self love). Philia (platonic love; the love of friendship). Ludus (playful love; uncommitted love). Pragma (enduring love; practical love). Eros (passionate, sensual love). Agape (unconditional love). Mania (obsessive love).
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ย When Jongin first lay his eyes on you, they had brimmed with tears yet to spill, a warmth coursing through him that threatened to engulf each atom of his being. The most gentle smile graced his lips as he watched you grip your mother's finger with your tiny hand, placing his own, much larger hand against his chest. He proceeded to exhale one deep, heavy breath, the tenderness of the moment having been too much for him to take in that the thoughtlessly effortless and wholly necessary function of being -- breath -- felt like it were suddenly a world away, entirely out of reach.
Like you. Though separated by several dimensions, realms and perceptions, in that moment Jongin had wanted nothing more than to whisk you up into his own arms and cradle you gently to his chest, rock you back and forth until the confusion and unrivalled chaos of coming into existence settled.
He'd heard numerous tales of the intensity of the moment, every Guardian Angel had. Of the honor of being assigned one's very own human to watch over, protect and guide to the best of their ability. But nothing could have prepared him for the sheer gush of love and amazement he'd felt as it truly dawned on him, that finally, after all the years of preparation and intensive training, he had you.
As much as he'd assisted and offered humanity a helping hand in guidance over the course of his own existence, he was finally taking his very first step into fulfilling the sole purpose he had as a Guardian Angel.
True as it were that he didn't know all there was to know about you and had, still, a long journey ahead with you, it was as if the previous woes of separation that had been dragging him into a deep pit of anxiety and despair whenever he'd overhear a fellow Guardian Angel gush about their Human -- as if the awful, nagging question of when hadn't already been creeping into his own thoughts during the nondescript, menial tasks of his day as it were -- when would he be allocated his own human to watch over, when would he be allowed onto the most defining chapter and journey of his existence, all but washed away.
The timing must've been divine, because it led him to being assigned you.
ย And truly, even though he had much to learn about you, much to learn through you, still, he already knew he wouldn't exchange you for the world.
With the intensity of the feeling coming onto him this strongly, already, the joy and pride burning through him, singeing itself into his very bones, he wondered if this first encounter with you would be the peak emotionality of the experience, if from this moment forward, his emotions would settle into a feeling much more contained, calm, like the lapping waves of the deepest, wisest ocean against its much cherished shorelines; perhaps in a manner of knowing similar to the way his wings would flutter against his shoulder blades with such natural ease, the internal process having ingrained itself into his very essence after a lifetime of being directed on how to do so by Jongin himself. ย 
Until the next day hit. Then the next month. And endlessly he'd find himself bathing in a feeling of such pride, of the most gentle affection and adoration, an unfathomable joy every time you so much as blinked, or made a movement that showcased your awareness of your existence to your parents -- who, as he'd observed -- were quite the turbulent pair within the vicinity of each other, which all but seemed to dissolve when their eyes fell onto you, the apple of their eyes, the highlight of their day.
He was a sobbing mess when you said your first word, when you took your first step. He'd never had the best control over his emotions, which was something his fellow angels would chuckle at and tease him about from time to time, telling him he'd been cut from a much more sensitive end of the cloth than they had, but he surely hadn't cried as much in all his years as he did the first few years of your life. ...And this was only from the joys of the experience.
He daren't even contemplate the fabled sadness that humanity had also been blessed, or perhaps cursed with. Time was vastly different for the two of you, the distance between your realms wasn't quantifiable in human terms and an absolute impossibility for you to breach on your end, one with a catch on his own. Though he could visit you, he'd never be able to be visible to you, unless you well and truly believed in him and could sense his presence. Guardian Angels were told to not get their expectations and hopes up about that because humans mostly called upon their Guardian Angels in times of desperation and grief.
In the vast majority of cases it was a feeble and half-hearted call at that, and as humanity had never been taught that there exist definite connections such as this -- that of a human and their Guardian Angel -- they never viewed it as a possibility for themselves, besides being a last resort in reference of what they believed to be a religious fable or fairy tale that evidently had no true basis in reality.
Guardian Angels were fiercely warned about the repercussions of causing such stress in humans, just so they could interact face to face with their human or humans in general, and it could result in them losing both their connection to their human and their status as a Guardian Angel.
Jongin was coming to you from a place of utmost care, protection and devotion, he felt, so he would never do anything to place you in harms way, jeopardize your bond, nor did he ever want to see you sad. He'd been told to prepare himself for it, because the human sphere of emotion was truly volatile at the best of times and the vast majority of humans would go on to face many ups and downs during their time on the earthly plane, but even so, he knew he would find ways to comfort you from afar and lend a helping hand in any form he, as your Guardian Angel, had been allocated and allowed.
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ย The earliest months of your youth passed smoothly and to Jongin, you were a blissful assignment, so full of joy and wonderment about the world around you, that the thoughts of any sad times you may have been on the path to encounter slipped to the very backs of his mind.
Until that changed in one swift moment at eight months old, as your mother stormed into your room in a haphazard disarray, mascara lining her cheeks, screaming obscenities at your father in the living room, as she pulled you from your crib, disturbing you into a startled cry in an instant, and marched back to face your father head on. Knowing all he could do to protect you in this moment in time was to wrap you in a sheen of protective, healing light and energy, Jongin watched with bated breath as your own cries eventually lessened, however, he had no way of telling you how your world was about to change, and neither did your parents, you were in no way able to understand the severity of the situation. Frankly, neither was Jongin.
It was a bitingly cold, bitter blue morning when your mother pulled up at the airport, and an even colder night, clouds heavy with rain, when you arrived in Paris, completely unaware this journey had been a one-way trip, for the both of you. Your mother had met someone months prior, a Parisian man of much renown, and before they even realized what was hitting them, sparks flew, and in their lovestruck daze, your mother accepted this man's advances behind your father's back, delighting in the excitement he brought to her difficult circumstances, her failing marriage.
Through his rage and hatred, which Jongin felt viscerally and had to carefully view as to not singe himself, your father demanded you be left with him if your mother preferred to โ€˜gallivant around Paris with her new loverโ€™, mouth poisoned with the most vicious of insults, telling her she'd destroyed the sanctity of marriage. To which she replied, bitterly, "wherever had it ever been, with you?". ย Neither cried, as behind the rage and resentment, they felt a wave of relief and ease wash over them, realizing they had freed themselves from the shackles of unhappiness they were currently causing themselves, even if the method of doing so held the many immoral tenets it did.
But you were a different topic to them, entirely. A bitter, relentless battle. They would go on to spend years vying for sole custody of you, years vying to tie you solely to either Korea or France, your father losing sleep over it, nearly falling into debt because of it. Though you'd flitted between both countries like a homeless butterfly during this, the court eventually ruled in your mother's favor, perhaps because of her lover's influence and seemingly ever increasing bank balance, but that didn't mean you never got to see your biological father again. Some summer and winter breaks were spent in Korea. There was also this fascinating invention called a smartphone that allowed you two to videocall as often as you could.
Eventually, your father moved on, as well, with a kind-hearted, gentle lady who would treat you with nothing but respect, though still wearied of overstepping any boundaries. Unlike on your mother's end, no half-siblings were added into the equation through your father's newfound love. ย 
Settling in took a bit of getting used to, at first. You worked hard at your French, practising most often through your stepfather; a lean, well put together man, who offered you day trips and homemade bread dipped in the finest of olive oils, and would eventually go on to buy you a grand piano, which had been your first love, prior to meeting your soul mate in the violin.
He was insanely musically inclined himself, and picked up on your talents early, something you feel eternally grateful for. And as initially awkward as the relationship had been, you began to find a solace in your stepfather, in his ability to stop arguments before they stewed and simmered and boiled over into something much greater than they were destined. He treated you as equally he did the children he'd go on to parent with your mother, considering you one of them. That wasn't as easy for you, considering you loved your biological father as much as you loved your mother, and you would only get to see him a few times a year in person, but eventually you grew fond of having two fathers, so to speak. It was especially fun having siblings, and not being the only child, any longer.
The first seed of confusion was planted within you, when your mother crouched beside your bed on the evening of a stormy Thursday night in June, sobbing, as she proceeded to tell you just how much she wished she had've met your stepfather first. You pretended to be asleep, your back towards her. She didn't see how your brows furrowed softly, as she'd then go on to tell you how you were her only saving grace but the shame ate her within, how your grandmother wanted nothing to do with her after the divorce. The fact she had children with two men. But she made it clear that night that if she had the choice between the two, your father and your stepfather, she'd have chosen your stepfather. It confused you because where would that place you on this spectrum? She didn't specify besides letting you know she loved you and she'd never regret you. But if she could, would she want you to be borne to your stepfather too? You tried not to think too hard about it. Tried not to wonder if your father felt the same, but with his new partner.
The reason behind your first time crying yourself to sleep was because of school. The even more confusing, terrifying realization that now, in this entirely new country, nobody looked like you, nobody sounded like you, nobody ate the same foods you did, a situation you initially thought was a point of celebration, how within you existed a vast piece of knowing of another part of the world, the unification of cultures and experiences, but not everyone seemed to agree with that. And though you did as much as you could to avoid these people's harsh, pointed gazes, it seemed like they'd find a new difference to point out everyday, until you hid the depth of your heritage behind their own, and didn't bring it up in conversation unless it was brought up first, which tore into your spirit and cracked your heart greatly.
Be it only a select few who acted this way with you, Jongin would still watch on everyday, painstakingly wishing he could just intervene, show you that you didn't have to take this treatment from anyone, ever. He knew some experiences and findings were your own to discover, but that didn't stop him from intervening as slyly and delicately as he could, such as blowing the main perpetrator's completed homework sheet out of his binder and ensuring it fell far away and that it happened gently enough to not alert him. He saw your own eyes flit to it for a second, and usually you'd react, likely hand it back to the person regardless of how they'd been treating you, but this time you blinked, a moment's movement, and decided not to.
Which was good enough for Jongin. ย Minor instances like this would persist any time the main perpetrator acted up and though he would still sneer at you from time to time, his acts of violence stopped flat when the mother of a fellow student told his mother about the way her son had been terrorizing his classes, how he'd been terrorizing fellow students, her own child included. Seemingly, his mother's grounding of him paired with her taking away his prized possessions and making him write a hand written apology to each and every student he'd tormented as well as having to read it in front of the class to them, seemed to do the trick.
You'd long since lost interest in any of that, however, having found yourself in the music room in your spare time, drinking up each and every note, learning everything you could. ย By this point, your French had improved to the point you were finally contemplating calling yourself bilingual, but music was a language within itself, and you were starting to realize your fluency in it came before any spoken tongue, as much love as you had for both Korean and French at this stage. Music... felt freeing. Like an adventure and home all in one. A safe sanctuary and a push outside of your comfort zone all the same.
Jongin watched every moment, every fear, frustration, woe and setback on your path to becoming the renowned and famed violinist you now are, experiencing all these emotions alongside you, crying with you, worrying with you. He watched every triumph, celebration and gleeful cause of enjoyment also, celebrating alongside you, even though you couldn't see him. Sometimes he felt sure you could at least feel him.
And how proud of you he was. How proud of you he'd always be.
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ย  ย Jongin's fingers thread through his hair as he lets out one, long exhale. The outward breath releasing all the stresses of his day, however minor they may have been in the grand scheme of things. He straightens his posture as he gently rolls up his daily task scroll, watching the enchanted piece of parchment glisten as he does so, the neat, cursive lettering slowly disappearing within itself as he ties a bow over it and brushes it off to his side. His days are jam-packed from the moment he awakens from his 'rest', though not at all necessary for his kind, it certainly helps to quicken any necessary healing process, prevent fatigue and reinforce routine.
Today had been a much lighter workload than usual, and he wonders if he's been allocated some semblance of free time to simply enjoy this defining moment of your life. Your first broadcasted concert, nationwide. In a venue you'd thought you'd only ever dream of performing in.
Strangely, despite how huge today is for you, he feels peaceful, oddly serene. You'll do well, he feels so within every fibre of his being.
Truthfully, as much as he'd convinced himself he'd been prepared for this, for everything it would entail to take on his duty as a Guardian Angel, he had, for a long time, dismayed of this -- of watching over someone who would never know of him or his existence, never feel his presence, never engage in conversation with him, but over the years, the feeling simply simmered into something else, shifted into a much gentler, warmer understanding, unconditional in its marker.
As much as he would still love to be able to openly converse with you, give you a warm helping -- corporeal -- hand whenever you needed it and remind you that within you existed all you needed to achieve all you had ever wanted, the truth was, you didn't have to know him, openly call to him and rely on him for your bond to legitimately feel as real, corporeal, precious and necessary as it was.
Sure, the bittersweet element would always exist, but everyday, his heart swells with joy and pride from simply knowing you, from having been entrusted with the honor of being your Guardian Angel. He hears of it often, hears fellow Guardian Angels sing the praises of their humans from the highest corners of the heavens, witnesses the jovial steps a Guardian Angel will take when they've finished their daily contact with their human, hears it in lulling wisp of their words, however soft, it's hard to miss the protective layer these words will be wrapped in; the innate knowledge that if a Guardian Angel had a life to give, there lay no doubt that they would give it to ensure the safety of their human in a mere heartbeat.
Truly, through all of this, Jongin feels he's lucked out with you.
ย Jongin leaves his work desk and decides to dress for the day ahead, slipping into a sheer, glittering pink ensemble, a lot freer than his usual attire, though still as outwardly ethereal. By the time he's ready, considering the intricacy of angelic clothing, with all of its buttons and laces, you will be thirty minutes away from pulling up at your destination. Though extensively separated, the nerves and excitement bubbling within you are also washing off on him, though he feels that the excitement outweighs the nervousness in this case. You'll do so well, he knows it. Today will be unlike any other, it will be a night to remember. The day, the evening, the night everything you've worked so hard for becomes yours. ย 
He'll watch every second of it, he's vowed to. But just as he's about to finish buttoning his much too intricate shirt, a flash of light catches his attention, which makes him look away for a split second. Thinking nothing of it, he turns back to his table, glancing down at his most frequented corner of the only world he's ever known. ย 
Before a silence washes over the room. Though everything looks as it should, there's been a stark change in the atmosphere. There's nothing to be heard, except for the even sound of his breath, nothing to feel but the suddenly deafening thunder of his own heartbeat. When it hits him hard and all at once how unusual this silence is, he only just picks up on how dark his surroundings are becoming, how they're beginning to blur into each other like they were never separated to begin with, before it all fades to black.
"What--?" He starts, upon reawakening, before a harrowing realization hits. This wasn't normal.
"No," Jongin chokes out. "No, no, no. That can't be." But he can't hear you, can't sense you and certainly can't see you right now. It's a mere ten minutes until your performance if his calculations are correct, and yet here he is, still not ready, presently having no idea what it is that is happening in his realm. Power outages were extremely infrequent, infrequent enough that a guardian angel could be taken aback by the unusualness of them, but why now? Why today, on the most important, defining moment of your life?
Jongin's thoughts are running wild, a frenzied energy overwhelms him as he contemplates what's happening. Why can't he move? Why is this ever deepening darkness swallowing him whole, why is the world he knows blurring within itself and most importantly... where are you?
Finally, realization hits.
In a wave that threatens to engulf the entirety of his being whole. The entirety of heaven's being, he feels.
He hears the sound before he truly understands what is happening, hears the glass shattering like it's right there in front of him digging into his own features and clawing away at his own flesh, hears the cheers of the fans you've accumulated over the years silencing, before they become shrill gasps and pained cries and screams, hears the sound of hundreds if not thousands of cameras clicking before they also fizzle out into the stark understanding and realization that something isn't right.
...Then it's chaos.
The sound of you being rushed to the hospital, of your mother's, stepfather and half-siblings' sobs and screams. Doctors and nurses pleading with them, telling them that they'd do all they could, just to, please, please let them work.
"A drunk driver," the nurse eventually whispers, though Jongin swore he hadn't missed a moment, the nurse's words are what break through the debilitating wave of agony that's drowned him, seemingly muted everything around him. Though her tone is stable, trained, she knows of you, she knew what day this was for you, it's a blatantly harrowing statement for her to make, but that knowledge doesn't comfort Jongin. "I'm sorry."
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ย No one. No one, between land nor sea, no one was expecting this. And especially not Jongin. The room of imprisonment is in a disarray, his arms are thick, wet with the blood he's somehow managed to etch and tear out of his supposedly unbreakable vessel in the hopes of identifying and locating the exit of this blatant room of imprisonment he's been forced into. And it'll continue; he'll force and tear his way out of any forceful holding that his higher ups try and keep him in if it continues to mean no news of what's happening with and to you, where, how and what will come next of it.
Caring little that his arms are lined with self inflicted etchings, dismissing a pain that begins to seep its way through him that he can't remember feeling for at least several millennia, knowing it can't even begin to compare to what you just went through. How you didn't even arrive to the biggest show of your life, the turning point of your career, the day that defined the rest of your life -- your entire future.
Gone, in an instant. Head on in a collision no one saw coming. Not even your Guardian Angel, who prided himself on his knowing of all things you.
He catches his frazzled reflection in the long, windy mirror in front of him and screams, a fraction of a second passing before the mirror itself shatters into a thousand pieces before him. He contemplates picking up one of the shards and carving his way out of the room of holding, but before he even has chance the glass morphs and moulds into a fine, sand-like substance, disappearing in between the space of his toes.
Finally, comes a knock. Minutes, hours, days, had they passed? He doesn't know. The silence outside of his inner and outer turmoil has persisted, his thundering heartbeat and deafening sobs serving as the only indicator of the time between.
"Jongin?"
"Leave me," he chokes. Simply sitting. Blatantly the room of holding had different laws than both heaven and earth, it seemed to be a room of his own making, a room he could change the dimensions of just by the depth of his feeling, his agony. So something as simple as sitting should be fine, should it not?
Not that he'd cared if the ground swallowed him whole either, at the present moment in time. Maybe any moment from here on out.
When he can taper into the connection you share -- fuzzy, muted and agonizing as it currently is, he watches the world mourn, but he feels it pales in comparison to his own grief, the unfamiliar feeling of sentience, self hatred, anger. An anger that burrows deep and cements itself inside him, demands to be felt. He screams, cries and kicks for all his might, but it won't change what happened to you. It won't allow him to live the day over and do everything in and outside of his power to bring you back. Here he was, as your Guardian Angel, and yet even he couldn't protect you, stop this atrocious crash from taking place?
The room shifts again, but Jongin doesn't bother to take any note of its changes until lights are pushing through his self inflicted darkness and blinding him. He curls into a ball, but refuses to close his eyes, not caring about the damage these lights may cause him, preferring the blindness to be his, if it comes to that, than yours. If there were a way to exchange his eyes for yours, his internal processes for your own, his own beating heart for yours, there wouldn't even be a question.
You'd be here right now. Alive.
What would heaven expect of him now? How dare they?
ย Moments, hours, days, it's one of the three, he knows that much, but he's done with pretending he cares to differentiate right now or ever again. There's a creasing, crinkling sound, akin to the sound of movement, albeit angelic.
The being places itself beside Jongin, who refuses to look up, caring not about the consequences right now. If ever again. What did any of it mean, anymore? What did any of it matter, without you, his sole purpose for existing, the one being above all else he had to keep safe and protect... gone in a instant. How could anyone look him in the eye again, if he were so useless as to not be able to predict this when he had the encyclopedia of all things you tucked away in his shirt's pocket, embedded into his own, horribly, selfishly beating heart.
Yours wouldn't beat again, would it?
Finally, after what must feel like an eternity to the being, but can't possibly compete with the eternity of agony Jongin's going through, he forces his head upwards meeting eyes with a messenger-in-training, a small, fluttery being, clad in blue-white robes. Their expression indiscernible, yet seemingly prepared for an outburst.
He hoped they wouldn't get one and he'd apologize in advance, but he had no notebook of heavenly principles and elements to follow in a situation like this, no guidebook on how to react when his sole reason for being had been taken from him with no warning. ย 
Instead, a millennia's knowledge on how to be a good soldier, how to have emotion but not too much, an innate agonizing realization of how he'll more than likely be expected to report back to his desk and record everything after the period of grief heaven's so 'graciously' granting him ends. Somehow be expected to continue existing without you.
How?
"It was not just her," the messenger-in-training cuts straight to the point, their body language telling him they're not here for a fight, and are genuinely hoping not to have to go on the defensive, and simply here to deliver the message. "That is why you could not interfere."
And blatantly why he'd been so at ease, having had his senses numbed so he couldn't pick up on any change in the atmosphere, sense this collision prior to it taking place.
Jongin says nothing. Jongin doesn't move. He's not sure where he is or even how this place exists, but suspended space or not, he's managed to convince himself it's a room, that there's a floor, objects, glaring overhead lights, that currently he's sitting, and the patch of ground his eyes are honed in on is truly, somehow there. The mirror's gone, but that had been there, too. So had you, once.
"Understandably you wish for me to leave you be, but--" The messenger-in-training won't meet Jongin's gaze directly. "I must inform you."
Five minutes pass. Jongin says nothing. ย 
"Will you speak?" The messenger-in-training asks. "Is there anything you wish to ask?"
It's at this moment the messenger-in-training notices the trail of blood that surrounds their own higher up, which results in a wince. They say nothing, but the miniscule moment doesn't go amiss to Jongin. How he wished for the messenger's naivety at this moment, their lack of understanding of a bond like this. Just bright hope for their future journey and development. Their eternity. Turn back, the grief within him wants to scream. Ask for another journey, another placement within heaven. This is your future.
But he can't. He can't because he knows that he'd exchange everything if it meant having you to watch over, again. How could he knock this naive present day messenger away from the most defining aspect of their existence, the one thing a Guardian Angel desires and hopes for above all else? Even if this present moment in time feels like a slow, torturous death of the most unspeakable kind, still, nothing in heaven compares to the bond you share, nothing in heaven can compete. Nothing in heaven could ever hope to compete. Perhaps that's why he stays silent.
"...And what happens now?"
"I though you would never ask." The messenger-in-training smiles here, a smile Jongin can't even begin to comprehend. His fellow Guardian Angels used to say he never stopped. Smiling, that is. Now he wonders if he'll ever smile again. "It is the most unusual happening, sire. Y/N..."
Jongin winces at the use of your name. Deeper than the messenger-in-training had prior. He wills himself not to fall apart, crumble into sand like the mirror had with him, however long ago that had been.
As if nothing is wrong, the messenger-in-training continues, "she will arrive in a day or two. Here, in heaven. Human time, of course."
As if the messenger is playing a cruel joke, Jongin stay quiet. He locks eyes with the messenger, the pain swirling in them so visceral, the messenger has to look away to compose them self. ย 
"Here?" He finally chokes out.
"Here," they confirm. "To be trained under you. Your journey is not over. Not that any of us expected it to be."
The pained cry that threatens to swallow the room whole results in confusion on the expression of the messenger-in-training but they daren't press Jongin on the matter. So much so that when he requests, possibly in the smallest voice he's capable of mustering, "leave me," the request is met.
"But before I leave, you must be back in your quarters before she arrives, you are aware of that?"
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ย Waves crash against a bleached white shore, the air cool against Jongin's skin, an unruly lock of his hair slapping against his forehead with every other gust of wind that comes his way, but he stay still as a rock, posture straighter than ever. Waiting.
Some angelic beings chose differently than Jongin. Some chose not to guide humanity, some chose to watch over earth itself, some chose to upkeep the heavens. It has been said that some heavenly souls chose to incarnate as human themselves, to then come back once their time was up on the earthly plane.
Surely, two of those three paths had their ups and downs also, but if Jongin's sure of anything, he's sure they're not expected to hold up and keep face in the position he currently is. He's sure they're not expected to stand strong and tidy when their whole world has been taken from them, the very ground they're used to standing on, pulled from underneath them. He hasn't measured the days... in days. Hasn't looked at a clock since, hasn't taken note of the changes in the daylight, the night sky.
Maybe you'll be the only one to understand what he's currently feeling, in the instance this was what you chose.ย  But he knows within himself, even if he can't confide in anyone else about it, that you didn't choose this. And if you didn't choose this, Jongin finds no other alternative explanation than to blame himself for what happened to you. Blame himself for not being able to foresee what was about to take place when once again he'd been nothing but the encyclopedia of all things you, since you came into your earthly existence. Sees no other alternative for not being able to save you in time, even if it entailed losing everything he had forged for himself, even if it meant losing everything heaven had given him.
At this point, you'll arrive when you arrive and he'll try his utmost to act like heaven expects of him. Deliver your training, pretend like any of this was justified.
When it wasn't.
Isn't.
Never will be.
ย Some time has evidently passed. A rustle of leaves is heard in the previously deafening silence. Jongin's wide, white feathered wings flap once, an instinctual movement, one he has no control over. His breath is sharp, shallow, as he holds the blade he and every other Guardian Angel is in possession of to his chest. These weapons were mostly precautionary, in case of intruders of heaven, something heaven and its inhabitants hadn't need worry about in at least several millennia, but wars had existed in the past, and the inhabitants needed to be trained in case of one ever breaking out again, or in the extremely rare case of an intrusion into heaven's walls. These days, these weapons were mostly for decoration. Jongin's had never been used. ย 
Right now, he has one purpose. Collect his underlings and guide them to their rooms, help them settle as much as he's been allocated to. Answer any of their questions as he does so, do everything he can to make this journey easier for his underlings, for the newer, younger angels in training. This time, a gnawing, visceral pain cuts through him, splintering him within. Even though he now knows beyond a doubt that your eternity was promised, the guilt still bubbles within, cuts into every joint, every blood cell. If illness could materialize in heaven like it can on earth, he's sure he'd be the very definition of decay, this moment in time.
He knows not if it's a blessing or a curse that it can't. At least this time. As he takes one step closer, he's not sure what he's expecting, how many underlings he'd been expecting, but in some sick twist of fate, it's you, alone. You don't look like you've just had your life taken from you in a metal death contraption, at least not physically. You're not bloodied, broken or bruised like you once had been. You're not strapped to a million and one wires that are doing overtime to ensure you're allocated one more year... month, week, hour, minute of life. The light in your eyes hasn't been drained and torn from you, like it was that fateful day.
He knows he wouldn't be able to keep his composure if any of that were to be presented before him, but is this worse? That it's now being painted like a rebirth, or even worse, like a surprise ending to a chapter of a book that abruptly ended. Like a beautiful eternity you've somehow unlocked from a premature death, a violent, bloody death. One no one saw coming.
As if that makes up for it. As if you could've ever contemplated such brutality for yourself on the most important day of your life? Like you would've ever chose that. Jongin knows you wouldn't. You know you wouldn't.
All for an eternity you didn't ask for, in a realm you'd re-enter with no memory of. A foreign, alien land so unlike that of the earth you'd known. It didn't sound like a good deal to Jongin.
Didn't feel like one when he had to watch you cry, scream and try your hardest to claw your way out of this seemingly new body and realm you'd found yourself in.
"I don't want this," you say. And he's speechless. All he can do is look at you, feel the crease between his eyebrows, feel the heart beating in his chest that's already been shattered into pieces innumerable, shatter all over again.
You're on your knees now, the sand around you caring not where it ends up. On your clothing, mixed into your hair, your eyelashes, wet with tears unending. If your emotion would materialize on your being at this very moment, you'd look like you did after the crash had taken place.
Jongin wants to fall to his knees too.
"Let me go back," you sob, and though you're a far distance away, you reach out your hand but he's not even sure if it's to him, or even if you've noticed him properly, it's like in this present state you're reaching out to anyone who'd listen. Who could grant you your desire.
Maybe instinctively you know Jongin can't.
He takes a deep breath as he edges closer, ever so gently taking hold of your arm, but it's still like you don't feel it. You're limp when he picks you up, guiding you onto your feet. Again, just like that god-awful day, your eyes have no light, your body has no fight. It comes on suddenly, so suddenly and it takes everything in him to not fall to his own knees and beg for your forgiveness, regardless of what anyone could or would say in protest.
This clearly had to have been his fault. He wanted to know you, too much. Wanted to converse with you, too much. Maybe he'd slyly intervened just a little too much? Who knew, but the reasons within his mind seemed numerous. He wouldn't accept that you would've chosen this.
"This too, will pass," he feels like a hypocrite to his own ears. Would it? Really? And maybe the words sound distant, floaty and stable to your own ears, but he hears the thickness of his words, tastes the way he chokes them out. He's not poised right now, even if he seems so to an untrained eye. If this were training, he'd have already failed. And he's thankful you're not coherent, because he'd give anything to cry the tears for you, than have to sob alongside you, for the life you've had cut short from you. The world you've been torn away from.
ย Counting the days comes a little easier now you're in front of him, existing in the same realm as him. But every hour stings still, every minute, even. Three long weeks take place, three weeks that you spend the most of in agony, he, the same, though he knows you can't tell. Before you arrived, he couldn't hide any of it, but now you're here, he feels that he must. He refuses to make your transition harder, refuses to make this any more harrowing and painful for you. You need some sense of stability. He has to try his hardest to be that for you.
Until you finally meet eyes with him, eyes dry of tears you thought you'd never run out of, an emptiness residing there instead. His own demeanor falters. Hope had always been something so tenderly threaded within your being, even at the worst of times, that it felt so agonizingly out of place to see it depleted, entering into a realm of hopelessness.
Maybe you don't notice how he gulps the lump down in his throat, the way he averts his gaze only slightly. ย 
"What am I even supposed to do here?"
He explains everything. The seemingly endless possibilities. How you'll train and study and help upkeep the heavens, keep watch. From A-Z, he explains it all, sounding like a trained salesperson to his own ears. It's almost humorous. Just how long had he been here, really? On the manual of all things heaven, Jongin knows he wouldn't miss a punctuation mark. None of that is your focus right now, though, and he can see the burning question swirl within your irises. ย 
"Do I get to go to earth?"
His lack of reply as he composes himself seems to be all the confirmation you need that... that's not currently on the cards and may never be again. His eyes follow your movements helplessly as you kick the ground beneath you, your eyes once again welling with tears, falling onto your knees, hands balled into fists, before they fan flat, your nail almost chipping from the pressure you're exerting as you dig it into the ground below you, as if you can claw your way back.
He understands.
ย Training is going as planned, as are the lessons. Whilst your spirit isn't in it, not even slightly, it's no lie that you grasp concepts well and excel in ways he once had, during his own days of training. It's almost a case of rinse, rest, repeat as you fall into this routine. Wake up, study extensively, rest, repeat. The light in your eyes still isn't back, and Jongin's trying to come to terms with the possibility that it might never be there again. But you're excelling, grasping everything the way you're expected to. Though he knows the hours that aren't allocated to studying, they're filled with your despair, endless tears you swore you'd seen the last of, the day before, the day before that. But now you hide them from your peers and Jongin feels that's even worse.
Even more difficult.
He doesn't expect that of you, but he feels he has no way of telling you so. ย ย 
Today's lesson ends a little differently, however. You approach him, determination lining your features. "Teacher," you start, and he nods to encourage you, let you know he's listening, though his eyes don't fully meet your own, they stay trained to the piece of paper he's writing on. "Is there a... way to go back?"
He stills, glancing up at you, breath slightly hitching.
"To earth, I mean."
"I know what you mean," Jongin says gently. He's not sure how guarded his own expression is because he watches some semblance of understanding flitter behind your eyes. Jongin shakes his head and moves to get up from the desk he's sitting at. Now you know he has more insight on the topic, this is not something you're just going to drop, not with your inquisitive, determined nature.ย 
"Please," you then plead, catching up to his long strides as you reach out to stop him from leaving the room. "Can we at least just discuss this? Even if briefly?" ย 
Sitting you back down, you're not expecting the extensive reply you receive. How Jongin covers every basis. From every angle. The possible impossibility, the warnings if it were possible, the consequences, so far, so forth. None of his words are judgemental, you can't actually pinpoint the emotion behind them, if there is an emotion behind them. It's all just factual, as theoretically factual as it can be, considering no one in heaven has ever pulled this off, nor ever attempted to. You listen, intently. Trying not to zone out here and there, which you find yourself doing a lot of, since arriving in heaven. The frequency of heaven is so different than what you remember of earth, as faint as that's starting to feel.
This was a much rawer, confusing process than people made it out to be in the movies. There was no beautiful transition, no peaceful acceptance. Just agony, a lot of it. And even more confusion.
If you hadn't had your teacher Jongin with you, you know you'd be having an even worse time. So you're thankful for that, at least. But you know any which way, if there's a way to return to earth, you're going to find it. And attempt it. You just hope Jongin isn't given the blame for your own actions, if that fateful day ever does arrive, knowledge-giver or not.
His eyes haven't left your features since he started explaining, as if gauging your reaction. "If you did find a way to return to earth, though we have no idea what the consequences of that action would be for earth, time, your human life and your existence itself, I can guarantee that it wouldn't go unnoticed by heaven."
Somehow you already knew that to be the case. You nod and thank him for all he's told you today, excusing yourself as you make your way to the door to exit the room. But just as you're doing so, you murmur, mostly to yourself, the sadness in your voice penetrating your own eardrums, "I still had so much left to do."
"I know."
"I had so many more plans," you find yourself continuing, forlornly. It's been so difficult to get these words out, to voice how unfair all of this actually feels. If you're sure of anything, you're sure you intended to tough out the human mission. Live as long as you could naturally. That had there been the option to opt out of 'accidental deaths', you'd have done so. You have no way of retracing your steps, but if pre-human you had've agreed to that, you'd love to have a word with them, ask them what the - and pardon your usage of this term - hell was wrong with them...
...What was wrong with you.
Do the angelic beings just sit conceptualizing lives they could live if given the option like these very lives are an endless array of video games options, or an episode of some ongoing sitcom show? Signing up for horrific ends of lives just like that, as if they won't be the ones feeling that very death take place, with none of their prior memories in tact? Just what kind of meta-masochism is that? God, the questions you actually had, they were unending. You didnโ€™t even know where to begin with verbalizing them all.
"I know," Jongin repeats, quieter. By this point he's caught up with you, and passes by gently. "E-excuse me," he says, as he reaches for the door handle.
But you stay still, eyebrows furrowed.
You'd been reading this wrong, hadn't you? Your prior encounters and conversations with your teacher seem to flit by in chronological order in your mind, highlighting all the things you seemed to miss, in the emotional sphere of things. No, none of it was lack of emotion. All of it was emotion, so much emotion, that it became that seeming lack of emotion. Like an emotional shutdown, a timed and practised one. Only here, in this proximity, do you notice it falter.
"Jongin?" You start. "...Teacher?"
His next breath is shaky, it falters. You don't even need words here, he's on your wavelength, he seemingly already knows what it is you're about to get at. "We have bonds too," the words don't exactly falter, but the way he fumbles with clasping and unclasping own hands as if he's trying to calm himself down, tell you his true emotional state. "You... remind me of someone, that's all."
You look at his dark brown hair, notice how he won't meet your gaze, how he swallows as if this will convince himself of the words he's saying.ย 
"I think recognise you from somewhere," you push.
His exhale eludes him. His entire being seems to wash with dread, and somehow you know you've hit the nail on the head. "Maybe the artwork," he offers. The artwork of angels in the human realm, you suppose he's referencing here, however, short and sweet answers aren't like him, at least as you've come to know. And no, you haven't been here long, but when it feels like there's not a lot else to do, learning about others and trying to understand them apparently ranks high on your list of priorities. ย 
"No, I mean. ...I've seen you somewhere," you insist. "You, teacher Jongin. As you are. I don't mean an artwork I witnessed in my human life. I recognize you." Gently you reach over and place your hand atop his and watch as he winces and snatches his hand back. But not before you feel the chorus of: 'I caused this, I'm to blame for what happened to you. I caused this, I'm to blame for what happened to you. I caused this, I'm to blame for what happened to you. I caused this, I caused this, I caused this' emanating off his very being.
Startled is an understatement, as you wince, also flinching to the same severity Jongin just hand.
His wince follows. His sole desire to encounter his human face to face, to wish for it so strongly, surely that caused this in its entirety. Rather than offer any explanation, which you're half heartedly expecting at this point, Jongin flits out of the room, leaving you bewildered and in even more confusion than prior.
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ย Some days pass until your next encounter. You're swaying on a swing set located in the heavenly gardens, that seems like it overlooks earth and the cosmos itself, it's a fascinating sight, one you could stare at and try decode all day. You don't really have the time for that right now, your schedule is surprisingly packed and has been since you arrived here, but you do have a small amount of free time allocated during your days. Mostly you spend them exploring the mass that is heaven, the endless, ethereally beautiful mass. And today, youโ€™re entirely taken by this.
Your eyes keep flitting a little to the left every time your swing reaches high up into the air, landing directly on an array of looking glasses, snow-like globes, that seem to contain the image of a different person's life, human after human, situation after situation, in real time, and you find yourself longing even harder to be back on the earthly plane, which surprises you, considering you're encountering a view like nothing you've ever seen before. Something so outside of the human scope of understanding, something so fascinating, that everything else on earth genuinely seems to pale in comparison.
Though what you're looking at is that, everything on earth. In real time. Seemingly every person that's ever been, is, or will be, reflected all at once, on their individual snow globes. Some are playing in the park with their dogs, others are trying their best not to flunk their upcoming exams, some are in the midst of a job interview they've lost sleep over, others are deep in meditation, but all, ultimately, even those that would argue within an inch of their life that they knew otherwise, are completely unaware of the sheer scope of transcendence and timelessness that exists outside the human lifespan. The human existence. All are equally unaware of just how deeply special and fascinating their little stretch of life and existence actually is. Most take for granted the beauty of the earth, too.
You're not trying to evade blame in any of those facets, because you were the exact same and now you'd do anything to return.
Oddly it's only when your eyes fall onto a young woman, much like you were, unzipping and picking up her violin do your hands shake and the enormity of emotion you're experiencing as you view all of this hit you, all at once. ย 
You hadn't known he was there initially, he has a very quiet way of appearing alongside any of the inhabitants of heaven, but as soon as you notice his presence, Jongin is no longer looking at you. Things had been a little uncomfortably quiet between you two since the conversation in the classroom, but Jongin was nothing if not the perfect teacher, mentor, guider... and angelic being. He didn't hold grudges towards anyone he encountered, didn't push anyone to explain them self or force anyone to talk about things they weren't ready for.
He certainly didn't outwardly showcase how shaken that conversation likely left him, truly, he treated you as normally as he could. Taught you as normally as he could. Guided you as normally as he could.
But it had cast a shadow of something over your dynamic that neither of you were reaching to iron out and discuss, at least not yet. Still, you find yourself discussing anything and everything around him. Asking questions you probably shouldn't be asking, yet still find yourself asking.
Usually he had the perfect answer. But you had a knack for choosing the instances he didn't.
"Did I ask for that?" You start, as he places himself beside you. "Would I have really asked for that?"
Jongin says nothing, this time, which you're half expecting. He knows the answer to all these questions, you feel, there's just something else he's not telling you. Sometimes that's intentional, some things are your own to figure out, you're well aware of that. But this seems like it is something he can't seem to tell you. And by answering these questions you randomly throw his way, sometimes, it appears like that in itself would be the key to the exact piece of knowledge he can't diverge.
"I see it over and over," you continue. Both of you know what you're referencing. The change, the transition, as heaven would like for you to call it. The awful experience with death is all you can remember it as. "Then I see sand, then I choke on the sand, then I'm here. And it's blindingly white before it's beautifully iridescent, lukewarm and sterile, but the sterility has not left nor shifted into its true beauty and at this point I'm wondering if it ever will."
Sterile's a good descriptor, Jongin thinks, as he listens to you intently. Beautiful, monotonous living, gift wrapped in a scope of color the human eye couldn't even process, let alone keep up with. Jongin, he's never known any different, but you have. Of course you'd want to go back. Especially when you both knew you had unfinished business.
No, not business. An unfinished life. A life curt short.
"They're a lot more free than here, huh?"
"In all the ways you could and could not imagine. But we don't hurt in the same way, we have knowledge of the infinite. Our pain can't create worlds in the same way and our love, I'd argue it can't be measured in the same scale, at least as I've observed." If it could, wouldn't you be safe right now? Securely sleeping in your cozy, warm bed after the most meaningful night of your life?
"I don't believe that."
"Well, I couldn't help," Jongin finally chokes out, "I mean--"
Something akin to understanding clicks in your expression and Jongin regrets his words. There were languages without sound, truly, weren't there? "Jongin--" You reach out to grab him, but he's already on his way.
"Have a rejuvenating rest," he says curtly. "It's a busy day tomorrow. "
ย It's a day or two later, during your free time, as you travel down another unexplored corner of heaven, hoping to learn all you can about your new place of residence. You glance to the unending hall titled 'Music', and find yourself flitting towards it as fast as you can, eyes scanning and cascading down every section, barely withholding your gasp. For a minute, there's nowhere else, the individual souls you've known are but a second, passing thought as you drink in everything before you, the endless beauty of all things music. What it was, is and could be in every realm of possibility, in every realm of existence. Songs and scores that humanity hadn't even considered being possible, instruments that made the beauty of the violin - your most prized and beloved instrument - pale. ย 
Today marks your first true smile, on this strange, heavenly plane, your first day of true happiness and contentment. And from today, you're sure it won't be your last.
You tiptoe back to the heavenly gardens you find yourself viewing in an entirely new color. The heavenly gardens whose beauty you haven't given yourself chance to truly witness. It strikes you that today is the first day you've been anchored in the present moment, noticing the happenings around you, instead of existing in your own heavenly little bubble. There's a line of newly turned - slash - recruited angels a few footfalls away from you, congregating together as they take a class you don't really remember taking yourself but surely must have, and there in all his glory, stands your mentor, in his flowing pink robes, with his truly unmistakable aura.
As floaty as it is - and it is, every angelic being seems to be - his presence is unlike any of the other angels you've met, it's more stable, somehow less floaty in comparison.
Jongin pats the space beside him as he instructs the new angels to sit beside him. They do so happily, all smiles and grace... and peace. Something tells you none of them were traumatic deaths, so likely no murders or accidents. Likely terminal patients who'd long since accepted the end of their lives, already lived out the grief and denial stages. Were actually looking forward to what came next.
Not one inch of you relates, and maybe that's for the best. Because you wouldn't have wanted to face the severity of their struggles on the earthly plane, either. There was no game of comparisons, at the heart of it. Those that ended up in heaven, ended up in heaven. That was the one truth. Regardless of how that came to be.
You were here now, and so were they. You actually wanted the best for them, and hoped they settled in as easily as they could have done, and as happily. You hoped that contentment and happiness followed them for all of their days.ย 
"Guardian Angel, Jongin," is what breaks you out of your reverie, a statement that is intended as both an introduction and a greeting to the new angels.
But one that leaves you feeling cold, numb, and confused. Not mentor angel, Jongin or teacher angel, Jongin as he'd referred to himself with you on numerous occasions, but Guardian Angel, Jongin. For some reason the name rings loud and clear, it almost deafens you. A warmth floods through you, it's not necessarily anger, but it's not wholly understanding either.
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ย Youโ€™ve waited a few days to approach your 'mentor' slash 'teacher'. Cutting straight to the chase, though it seems heโ€™s half expecting you. Maybe this should stop you in your tracks to assess the situation, but it doesnโ€™t. "When were you going to tell me?"
The ice water is colder than he anticipated, and Jongin had spent every moment since you arrived anticipating this exact encounter. How could he have been so stupid as to instruct a class during your break, knowing you frequented the heavenly gardens so?
"...That you knew me all this time?" You don't miss a beat. "That you were my Guardian Angel?"
He glances the other way, but you're closing in on him. He half fears an altercation, but heaven had never seen the likes of that between its own inhabitants. Slim chance as it was, you did not look happy. His heart pangs in pain, but also in understanding. Had he prolonged your confusion and anguish during your transition by not letting you know his truest position in heaven? Suddenly, his grief and anger at himself hits him tenfold, and he wants to re-imprison himself in his room of holding. Things weren't bad enough already, were they? Now he'd only gone and added to your pain and suffering when he could've been helping you adjust and heal properly through the bond you naturally shared. ย 
He felt like the worst Guardian Angel that had ever existed. His next sentence seeming to only cement this fact in his own mind. "I slept through the car crash." He shakes his head. ย "...Rather was positioned somewhere where I couldn't correct this, but that is the same as sleeping through it considering my connection to you, and how close I have been to you all of your life, considering how well I know you. What I am to you. There is no justification of that, there is no logical way of explaining it, there is no redemption for that, Y/N. I failed you. At present, do I even deserve the title Guardian Angel? I should've been stripped of my position the second this took place."
Itโ€™s as if this opens the floodgates of all that is yet to be said, explained, or experienced. You can feel the tears cascading down your cheeks, you can feel yourself edge closer to the beautiful, angelic being before you and you can feel yourself wrap yourself in his embrace and sob until there are no tears left, and knowing you can't get a coherent word out here, you listen as well as you can. To all he has to say. The pain, and slight anger you'd been feeling dissipating, though he feels his words should evoke the exact opposite reaction. The guilt and suffering within him feels like it could tear apart worlds, and yet he sees himself as being unworthy of his position. It's easier to pinpoint all the ways he assisted you and helped you during your earthly life, especially in his embrace, adding in all the ways he's helped you here in heaven, and yet he dismays of himself so much, when he's the shining example of what heaven wants their angels to be, and especially their Guardian Angels, thatโ€™s as much as you can gather, if any of your classes are to go by.ย 
"A foreboding sense like that can't be ignored, and there's no doubt that I would've fallen if it meant saving you, maybe someone knew that somewhere, and thus... I ended up in that room of imprisonment. You have every right to hate and despise me to your heart's content, but you think I wasn't mad too? At the feebleness of the human form, how easily that beautiful life can be taken away, like it never even existed in the first place? But that anger never settles on you, it is always directed at myself. I was chosen to guide you, to protect and defend you and I failed in the moment you needed me the most. I should've found my way out, I should've stopped that day's events taking place. You should be alive right now, and we should've met many, many, many years from now. I should've held onto patience, waited for you to come to heaven in your own time, yet I fear my unending desire to meet you face to face, to know you face to face, resulted in that day's events, somehow. Regardless of what anyone else can say on the contrary. I love you, Y/N, in all the ways a Guardian Angel should. I adore everything you are and everything that makes you, you. I have been so blessed to know you, to have been assigned to you. I have such endless love and pride for you and everyday it kills me in how much I failed my one true purpose, as a Guardian Angel. Truthfully I care not if I lose everything after today, but I haven't been doing nothing in the time since you arrived. I have been studying like crazy. Reading documents that even I am not allowed to chance upon. Or shouldn't. I may lose everything, and I know you won't remember any of this after a few weeks back on the ground but... at the end of your days, your natural days, I do hope we will meet again. And be face to face once more. Until then, it has been the loveliest thing in existence to know you, like this. The most prideful and honorable thing to be your Guardian Angel. Please remember me, somewhere within. And know I am always on your side. I am always with you. Though I know not will happen to me after today, for you, it's worth it. You will always be worth it."
"Guardian Angel Jongin...?"
"Our past few weeks have have barely counted down there, on earth. Itโ€™ll be hours, tops. Truthfully, regardless of what it takes from me, I will alter that day's events. Though I wanted to meet you face to face so, so, so much. I didn't mean like this. It shouldn't have happened like this. Not like this. Never like this."
Before you can blink, or even realize just how closed in youโ€™re suddenly feeling, how the sense of your surroundings seems to have blurred since you entered this strange room you just, for some reason, seemed to assume was his classroom, but blatantly isnโ€™t upon second glance, he places his hand atop yours as a shrill, ear splitting sound enters the room and elicits an even shriller gasp from you whilst a blinding off-white light envelopes you within and twirls and twirls, and keeps twirling, until all you knew of heaven and your Guardian Angel Jongin fades, and fades, and keeps fading...
ย Awaking with a start, the familiar Parisian trees come into your line of vision. You glance around you and notice your manager, and driver bopping along as normal to the radio, as the car pulls up to your destination, exactly on time, as safely as ever. You blink once, then several times more, wondering where your head-splitting headache came from and why you suddenly feel so nauseous and out of place. "I had the strangest dream," you finally settle on, directing this towards your manager who's hardly paying any attention to you at this moment in time. Still, you continue, "I think I met my guardian angel."
Your manager guffaws, rolling his eyes. "Guardian angel? Y/N, there's no such thing!"
As you glance back at the trunk of the car, the droplets of light rain trickling down the window, you wipe the lone tear that also trickles down your cheek away. "Thank you," you whisper, not knowing if this will be your only chance to tell him that, if these memories are to leave you soon and though you swear you must've been back on earth barely two minutes, it already feels like they are leaving you. But you know in your heart, that you will meet him again, someday. Thank him, someday. For all he did for you, today.
For a moment, you see Guardian Angel Jongin's outline in the empty seat to the right of you, along with his faint, but unmistakable pink glow. You feel the warm, comforting energy you've felt around you so often, during good and bad days, and anything in between, and finally understand that this being really has been watching out for you as long as you can remember, that he has been with you through everything, and hopefully will continue to be, regardless of the possible severity of his last actions. ย 
Maybe it was nothing but a test for him, a screening for him to understand the worst possible scenario a human and their Guardian Angel can go through together, for him to truly cement and prove the fact that he truly was as devoted to you as his position expected him to be, and in doing so, you suppose he passed with flying colors, or he lost everything he was... but it was your life, and now you intend to live it. To the fullest you can.
For everything you've got left to do, to be. ย 
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A Heartโ€™s Perfect Prey
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A/N: Hello! I know this is a story Iโ€™ve already posted, but I wanted to rewrite it, make it better and change the member it was written for. I hope you give it a chance and enjoy the new version!ย 
Genre: Vampire AU
Pairing: Chanyeol x Reader
Warning: mentions of blood, murder, supernatural elements
Summary: Murders are happening around you. Unbeknownst to you, the culprit isnโ€™t human. Heโ€™s a vampire centuries old with a game to play. And his opponent? Park Chanyeol. A vampire out for revenge. With you as the new pawn on the board, will you be another sacrifice in their long destructive game or will you reignite a heart long cold and dead?
Tao I Chanyeol Iย Yixing I Luhan I Minseok I Jongdae I Jonginย 
**
Being alone wasnโ€™t so bad. No tearful goodbyes, no hurtful attachments. He was free to come and go as he pleased, no one to hold him back, to force him to stay in one place for too long. Sure, after two hundred years, he had connections all over the world, but they were merely acquaintances, people to help him get when he needed the upper hand.
Like Luhan.
After five decades and twelve cities, it was amusing how that short pretty boy was still working as a public worker, spending most of his days down in a basement under harsh fluorescent lighting that exemplified his pale, undead skin, surrounded by rotting flesh. If humans couldnโ€™t stand the smell, imagine how a vampire felt.
But today was one of those days where Luhanโ€™s position came in handy.
Chanyeol needed information.ย 
A fewย  days ago, he caught the scent of an old adversary - one heโ€™d lost track of decades ago - right here in his own territory. A ruthless vampire who needed to be put down for the good of all. And heโ€™d been leaving quite the trail, if Chanyeolโ€™s hunch was correct. If anyone in the city were to know about a rise in vampire-on-human attacks, Luhan would be the one to contact.
The precinct was busy, loud and overcrowded with people begging not to be locked up. No one paid Chanyeol any attention as he strolled down the hallway like a spector and to the elevator, pressing the button to call it. While waiting for its arrival, the sound of tears under the chaos caught his attention. In the main room behind him, sitting at one of the detectivesโ€™ desks with a police standard jacket around your shoulders, you were mostly ignored by the others who walked by.
You werenโ€™t wailing or sobbing hysterically. Your face was blank, void of any emotion as tears rolled down your reddened cheeks. Occasionally, you sniffed, creating the soft noise that had caught Chanyeolโ€™s attention in the first place. No one seemed to be paying vulnerable little you any mind. It was mildly depressing.
Shaking his head, Chanyeol turned away when the elevator dinged at its arrival. He entered and hit the button for the basement with perhaps a little too much force.
Luhan was hurriedly scribbling something down on a clipboard when Chanyeol stepped into the stench pit. The undead coroner didnโ€™t look up to acknowledge his old friend even though he certainly heard the heavy steps from the hallway, maybe even from the floor above.
โ€œIโ€™ve actually been expecting you to arrive sooner than this,โ€ Luhan chuckled, finally looking up. He slid the pen under the clip and placed the metal clipboard off to the side.ย 
Chanyeol leaned against an empty slab, his hands in the pockets of his black designer coat. Not that he actually needed one to stave off the cold temperature outside. He simply liked how it looked on his tall frame. โ€œWell, you are practically psychic.โ€
โ€œNo. Just intuitive.โ€ Luhan walked over to the wall that housed the newly arrived corpses and pulled out a drawer as Chanyeol joined him. On the cold slab was a young woman, seemingly in her early to mid-twenties. Pretty except for the thick red slash that tore up her throat. โ€œI havenโ€™t done the autopsy yet. I was waiting for you to arrive. Although, to be honest, I donโ€™t really need to do one.โ€
Chanyeol frowned thoughtfully. That wasn't a good sign. โ€œWas it him?โ€
โ€œThat would be my guess.โ€ Luhan gently pushed the womanโ€™s raven hair away from her neck, showing off the side where the cut was deepest and brutally applied. โ€œI found two puncture wounds hidden beneath the cut. Obviously vampire. This isnโ€™t an unusual way for vampires to cover their tracks butโ€“โ€ he stopped.
โ€œBut what?โ€ Chanyeol urged.
Luhan sighed. โ€œDid you see the girl crying upstairs? Pretty? Sitting at the detectiveโ€™s desk?โ€ Chanyeol nodded. โ€œThis is the second person connected to her thatโ€™s died. In this exact way. And both bodies were left around like they were meant to be found. I have a feeling another one will show up soon.โ€
Chanyeolโ€™s eyes flashed red. The sudden change didnโ€™t scare Luhan like it might have with any human. Heโ€™d fully expected this to happen.
โ€œIt is him,โ€ Chanyeol growled. โ€œThis time, Iโ€™ll get him. And Iโ€™ll rip his throat out.โ€
Luhan pushed the drawer back into its holding cell, closing the door on the poor girl. โ€œDo it soon. Before he kills someone else.โ€
With a hard nod, Chanyeol turned on his heels, stalking back to the elevator to start his hunt.
โ€œIโ€™ll send you the targetโ€™s information!โ€ Luhan called out after him. The taller vampire simply threw up his hand in acknowledgment.
**
Why wasn't the breakdown coming? For the moment of what you had found down in the laundry room of your apartment building to truly come crashing down on you.ย 
But it didnโ€™t come. Tears rolled down your face, but you didnโ€™t really cry. Not the kind that came with loud wails and shouts of it not being true. And thatโ€™s all you wanted to do right now. You didn't want to feel this numb, thisโ€ฆ dissolved. Like sea foam drifting along a calm surface. Undisturbed and slowly disappearing.ย 
After what seemed like an hour, the detective finally came back with a cup of tea, handing it to you without much ceremony.
โ€œThank you,โ€ you whispered.
The detective nodded. โ€œNow, (y/n), I know it's going to be difficult, but I need you to tell me about Jisoo and what might have happened.โ€
The last image you had of Jisoon flashed through your mind as you took a sip of the bitter tea and you flinched. Hopefully the detective, if he noticed at all, thought the look was due to the hot liquid. โ€œI donโ€™t really know what happened. Jisoo and I were close. We were around the same ageโ€“โ€
โ€œYouโ€™re her neighbor, correct?โ€ he interrupted.
You nodded. โ€œYes. For the past two years. Every Friday night after work, weโ€™d go down to the laundry room. Hardly anyone else uses it at that time since most people go out to start the weekend. Weโ€™d normally talk about life, our jobs, family while waiting on the washer. I was late getting off today so when she didnโ€™t answer her door, I figured she already went down. When I got there, she wasโ€ฆ she wasโ€“โ€ Your throat constricted at the memory, refusing to let any other words out. You needed to focus on breathing or you would start hyperventilating.ย 
Jisoo, lying on the dirty concrete of the basement laundry room. Bright red blood gathered around her head like a haunting halo from a cathedral window. Her eyes open, staring up at nothing. Body broken like a ragged doll, she was lying on the ground, thrown away without a thought, whoever attacked her not caring about the aftermath. No remorse, no second thought.ย 
You shook the memory from your head. You wanted to get it out, to say it out loud as if that would make it disappear from your brain forever. But you weren't able to voice the images to life.
โ€œThatโ€™s okay,โ€ the detective said soothingly, rubbing your arm as a means of attempted comfort. โ€œDid Jisoo have any enemies that you know about? Anyone who didnโ€™t like her?โ€
Again, you shook your head. โ€œNo. She tried to be friendly with everyone.โ€
โ€œDid she complain about anyone ever?โ€
โ€œNo.โ€ You sighed, โ€œNo one, but Ryan from work. But heโ€™s just a perv.โ€
That peaked the detectiveโ€™s interest. โ€œDid he try any advances on Jisoo? Is that what made her uncomfortable?โ€
โ€œN-no,โ€ you stuttered. โ€œHe just shares a bit too much about his personal life. I met him once, when we went out. Even drunk, he never tried anything on Jisoo.โ€
That seemed to disappoint him. A possible lead already running dry. โ€œAlright. I think weโ€™ll end the interview here. Iโ€™ll get one of the patrol officers to take you home. Iโ€™ll give you my card, in case you think of anything else.โ€
To your relief, the officer who drove you back to your apartment didnโ€™t say anything. He merely let the occasional radio message over his computer break the silence. Going all the way in chivalry, he saw you to your door five stories up. Jisooโ€™s own door across the hall had crime scene tape to stop anyone from entering in case they needed to gather more evidence or clues. You couldnโ€™t picture what they possibly needed in there since she was found in the basement. But you werenโ€™t an investigator, so what did you know?
You thanked the officer and went inside your apartment.
Just do your normal routine, you told yourself as the door clicked behind you.ย ย 
And so you did. You changed into your pajamas, washed your face, brushed your teeth, and climbed into bed. It was supposed to be the remedy. It was supposed to make your bodyโ€™s rhythm jump back into place. And maybe it worked. How could you really know?
If it worked or not, it was finally there, in the dark, with the sound of the city attacking your window, that the numbness โ€“ protective arms and thick shield โ€“ slipped away.ย 
Finally, with your face hidden in your knees, you were able to cry at the loss of your friend.
**
Two weeks had gone by since that terrible night and you were sure you were losing it. Maybe you should see a therapist.
You canโ€™t afford a therapist.
Well, maybe then you should get a new job.
But you loved the store with its endless shelves of novels, so living in constant paranoia for the time being it was. In time, it would fade away and you would be fine, back to normal. All of this was probably only your imagination, anyway. Your very active imagination.
A looming shadow perched permanently in the corner of your eye as you walked down the street to your job or to the grocery store or to the park. But whenever you turned to get a better look, it was gone. The feeling of being watched, of every step being analyzed and memorized was near constant. But no one was ever around. No eyes were trained on you, no steps matched yours exactly.ย 
In a change of pace for the day, however, as you went about your duties in the small bookshop you called your second home, you found yourself not quite as aware. Your mother often complained that you could do better, be at a bigger company and earn a bigger paycheck. But you were the assistant manager and with Bruce about to retire within the near future, you were next in line to be in charge. Why bother trying to start over somewhere else?
A few customers milled about the store, so you deemed it safe to leave the register as long as one eye was kept at the front. The pile of returns and donations was getting high and cluttered around the counter. You knew that Dani would never get all of them put away by herself. You grabbed a fair number and started wandering about the store, finding the right places for the novels among the shelves.
Being surrounded by the pages of other peopleโ€™s stories made you feel better. The smell of old books took you back to leafing through your grandfatherโ€™s personal library. He never threw away a good book, constantly going back to a story that had touched him in some way. It drove your grandmother crazy. She would groan about what else she could be doing with the space that the multiple shelves took up. Your grandfather always stood his ground, telling her that the knowledge and wisdom printed on the pages was never a waste of space.ย 
Finding the Gโ€™s, you plucked the top book off of your pile. As you double checked the author's surname, you paused. It was the last book that Mr. Kim had purchased before he passed.ย 
Coming in every Tuesday and Thursday, Mr. Kim would browse through the classic fantasies while telling you about the authors he had met in his younger years. His collection of rare novels and authentic signatures was something you always swore you would see one day. Now it was too late..
Your heart had shattered when you found out that he wouldn't be coming in under the ringing bell anymore. You werenโ€™t sure of the details, but someone said he had fallen down the stairs and hit his head. It was a terrible way for him to go. He was so sweet, like another grandparent you could turn to when you needed it.
Releasing a heavy sigh, you put the book away and searched for the next one's spot. Naturally, its proper place was on the highest shelf a few rows over, just out of your reach. You looked around, but the only ladder in the shop was currently being used by Dani, who was nearly a living elf with her unusually small stature. Being the stubborn person you were, you decided that you would get it up there without the stool. You stretched your legs, reached out your arm as far as it could go, and were on the very tips of your toes, but still you couldnโ€™t reach it.
A large hand appeared from nowhere, bypassing your ear and taking the book from you to push it between the other historical fiction novels. Gasping in surprise, you whirled around to face the stranger. The momentum nearly toppling over the remaining books in your hands.
โ€œOops. Sorry,โ€ the stranger chuckled, steadying the pile. His long fingers barely brushed yours. They were abnormally cold. Icy, even. Probably due to poor circulation.
โ€œTh-thank you,โ€ you stuttered. Heat bloomed on your cheeks. The helpful stranger was handsome. Though on the softer side of looks with rounded cheeks and large eyes, he was abnormally tall and broad in the shoulders. A boyish smile beamed down at you. It showed off blinding white teeth that were distracting.The muscles in your throat constricted, your stomach fluttering from the lack of space between the two of you, not helped at all by the closeness of the shelves.
โ€œYouโ€™re welcome,โ€ he said in a shockingly deep voice. A most contrasting element to his looks. He bowed his head politely. โ€œIโ€™m Chanyeol.โ€
โ€œ(y/n)." Clearing your throat, you asked, โ€œIs there anything I can help you find?โ€
โ€œI was looking for your supernatural section.โ€ A light shimmered in his eyes that gave you the impression that he was silently laughing to himself.
โ€œOf course.โ€ You motioned with your head. โ€œFollow me.โ€ You led him to the back where his desired taste was stored. โ€œJust let me know if you need anything else.โ€
He nodded. โ€œThank you.โ€
Trying to hold your smile down at a friendly level, you nodded back and scurried away to put the rest of the books back on the shelves. The last thing you needed to do was accidentally start rambling about your unasked-for recommendations and say something embarrassing.ย 
You hoped to see him again before he left. But he didnโ€™t buy anything and by the end of the week, he hadnโ€™t returned to the store.ย 
**
Sundays were your favorite days of the week. The perfect day off from work, if anyone were to ask you. It was a calmer day, with a softer sun and slower steps. The weight of your own feet was lighter as you headed to your favorite little coffee cafรฉ, newest novel discovery in hand. Taking a window seat along the storefront, you ordered an herbal tea and sat back in the cushioned chair. The spine of the brand new paperback gave a satisfying crinkle as you cracked it open.
Chilling mysteries used to be your favorites. The thrill of trying to figure out who was terrorizing everyone and their motivations while the main character tried not to be next kept you turning the page. But ever since Jisooโ€™s murder, the stories only gave you nightmares that forced you to relive finding her body in the basement. So, instead, you got as far away from murder mysteries as you could. A nice, soft modern romance filled with all the good cliches. They were a comfortable place to run to. You knew every step of the plot, no surprises waiting for you.ย 
So lost in the troubles of a screenwriter running into the sarcastic actor of her new movie were you that you didnโ€™t notice the leg nearing the corner of your table until it was too late. It jostled the table enough to spill the now lukewarm tea, leaving the paper cup practically empty.
โ€œIโ€™m so sorry!โ€ The other patron was already cleaning up the liquid with a handful of napkins they had snatched from the nearby stand.
โ€œItโ€™s alright.โ€ You put your book down in your lap โ€“ the only safe place for it โ€“ and your jaw dropped when you looked up to see who it was that had run into the table. โ€œChanyeol?โ€
Those large, round brown eyes lit up when he recognized you. โ€œ(Y/n)! Oh, this is embarrassing.โ€ Once the table was dry, he threw away the napkins in the nearby trashcan and picked up the now empty cup. โ€œLet me buy you a new one.โ€
โ€œOh, no, thatโ€“โ€ You were too late. He was already at the counter, reaching it in minimal strides, and ordered you another tea.
When he came back, he set down the freshly made tea before sitting in the chair across from you and taking a sip of his own coffee. โ€œIโ€™m surprised to see you outside of the store.โ€
Setting the book down on the now dry table, you tried not to look too pleased that he was staying to chat. โ€œWhile some people might think that I live there, I do venture to other places on occasion. I really like it here, so I tend to come whenever Iโ€™m off work.โ€
โ€œItโ€™s a nice little cafรฉ,โ€ he agreed, glancing around. โ€œSo, how long have you worked at the shop?โ€
โ€œSince I graduated high school.โ€
And just like that, you were telling Chanyeol basically your life story. He told you a few vague details about himself here and there when you asked, but he always turned the conversation back onto you. Typically, you preferred to be left alone when you were reading, but this interruption wasnโ€™t wholly unwelcome.
Chanyeol was funny, often making both you and himself laugh. You liked the sound of it; the way his deep chuckles mixed with your own obnoxious giggles. He was smart, too, often randomly dropping facts that you hadnโ€™t known before. He seemed to like surprising you and throwing you off guard.
After a few hours, it was time to leave, with neglected chores nagging you home. Before you could stand, however, Chanyeol grabbed your hand.
โ€œCan I take you out to dinner tomorrow night?โ€ he asked.
โ€œOh! Y-yeah. That would be wonderful.โ€ With a shaky hand, you wrote down your number on an unsoiled napkin. He said he would call you with a time and so heโ€™d know where to pick you up. Every second of waiting until then was going to be torturous.ย 
**
Chanyeol knew this was creepy. No one had to point it out to him. But he still couldnโ€™t will himself to move.
When youโ€™d left the cafรฉ heโ€™d followed you at a far distance, making sure you made it home safe. Heโ€™d been tracking you for a while now. He needed to see if he could catch Taejo on your trail while also keeping an eye on you. That sadistic vampire always liked playing with his targeted victims. His game consisted of the same elements: killing people around them until the slow realization that they were next sunk in. But he had yet to show his face. And Luhan confirmed that the only person who connected your neighbor and that old man โ€“ Kim something โ€“ was you.
So, Chanyeol had to take things to the next level. He knew that their hatred for each other was strong, so if he made his presence known, maybe Taejo would slip up or confront him. That was what dinner tomorrow was about.
At least, thatโ€™s what he kept telling himself.
He hadnโ€™t meant to enjoy talking to you so much. Itโ€™d been nearly two hundred and fifty years since he allowed himself to be close to a human. To have a conversation with meaning with a human. It was surprising how easily you pulled him in, fascinating him with every little reaction, every little subtle movement. It was irritating.
And yet, here he was, sitting on your fire escape and watching you sleep. He hadnโ€™t moved much since you arrived home and settled in your room for the evening. Not even when you left to go take a shower and get ready for bed. Now you were fast asleep in an oversized band t-shirt and a pair of very tempting shorts.
Chanyeol let out a low hiss at the thought, knocking his head against the glass. Dumb idea.
The sudden noise pulled you from your sleep. Your eyes snapped open and frantically searched the dark room. Chanyeol crouched down, cursing his too-long body for the first time as he tried to stay hidden and out of view of the window. He could hear your erratic heartbeat as you approached the window, only calming down to a resting thump when you found nothing. You settled back down on the bed and he decided it was time to leave.
He had a feeling he was going to be in big trouble if he didnโ€™t watch himself.
**
What was this never-ending dream you had conjured up?
That first dinner with Chanyeol was more romantic than any movie you had seen. He reserved a private balcony overlooking the skyline at one of the most in-demand restaurants in the city. At his request, the table had a large bouquet of spring flowers that was eventually moved to the floor so you could see him across the way. You had a perfect view of the stars in the candlelight dinner. Conversation flowed with ease, never having a moment of awkwardness.
Chanyeol was a perfect gentleman the entire night. Maybe a little too perfect of a gentleman. It was disappointing that he hadnโ€™t kissed you goodnight and your mind raced with worry. Perhaps he didn't have the same feeling about the date that you did. But that anxiety vanished when he showed up at the bookstore the next day, just to see you.
That was the pattern your life had fallen into over the past month. He would take you out with a surprise in mind or he would come over to your place for a more casual night in. At least three times a week, he would stop by the store to talk and keep you company. You could hardly believe that he was real. There was only one tiny snag.ย 
He still hadnโ€™t kissed you. And you just werenโ€™t brave enough to take that step, to make the move instead. You didnโ€™t want to scare him away if he was the kind to take things slow. He seemed to be as invested inโ€ฆ whatever this was. But his lack of action planted little seeds of doubt in your mind and they were quick to take root. Their vines entangled your every thought as you walked hand in hand with Chanyeol down the street to your apartment. Not surprisingly, he picked up on your sinking mood.
โ€œ(Y/n)?โ€
You kept staring straight ahead. โ€œHm?โ€
He stopped your steps with a slight tug on your hand. โ€œWhat is it? Whatโ€™s wrong?โ€
Embarrassed and unable to answer, you merely shrugged. โ€œNothing. Iโ€™m fine.โ€
The frown and creased forehead that emerged told you that he didnโ€™t believe you, but he continued down the street, still holding tight to your hand. It was silent all the way to your door, even as you put the key in the lock to let yourself in. Getting a sudden sense of courage, you whirled on him.
โ€œIs this real?โ€
His eyes widened. โ€œWhat?โ€
โ€œIs this real?โ€ you repeated. โ€œDo you like me?โ€ย 
Chanyeol laughed. โ€œOf course I like you, (y/n). Thatโ€™s why Iโ€™ve been spending time with you.โ€
Your voice came out barely above a whisper as you stared down at the ground, shoulders bumping against your door. โ€œBut thatโ€™s all you do.โ€
He sighed, his breath ruffling the hair against your forehead. Cautious fingers caressed both sides of your face before tilting your head up to him. A small, playful smile sat teasingly on his lips.
โ€œYouโ€™re really cute when youโ€™re pouting.โ€
As you opened your mouth to retaliate, he took his chance and brought his lips to yours.
He started off tender, as if he were scared you might break or run away. Kissing him back, you showed him that you werenโ€™t going anywhere. You snaked your arms around his neck to pull him closer so your bodies were one. He trailed his fingers down your sides at an agonizingly slow pace, as if memorizing every curve. They didnโ€™t stop at your hips like youโ€™d expected, instead continuing down to your thighs before lifting you up and pinning you against the door.
Chanyeol pulled away, looking up at you. โ€œThis is why I havenโ€™t kissed you yet. I knew once I started, I wouldnโ€™t be able to stop.โ€
You smirked, cradling his jaw with your palms. โ€œWho asked you to?โ€
He shook his head at your challenge, diving in again and kissing you with more ferocity this time. It amazed you how he was able to keep at it while opening your door and carrying you inside with grace and speed.
As soon as the door clicked shut, he spun around and pinned you to the hard surface. You pulled away just for a second to get another lungful of air when something caught your eye. Wiggling out of Chanyeolโ€™s embrace and feeling the wall to your right, you flipped on the light switch and screamed.
โ€œYOUโ€™RE NEXTโ€ was written on your living room wall in bright red liquid that dripped off the letters.
Chanyeol hid your face in his chest and pulled you out of the apartment while dialing nine-one-one on his cell. The authorities were there soon after. You shook uncontrollably in the hallway as a small group of officers searched your home. Chanyeol answered every question and confirmed the two of you never made it past your front door. Words were going in your ears, but your mind wasnโ€™t making sense of any of them, except one: blood.
A detective arrived at the scene, quickly speaking to one of the officers before approaching you.
โ€œMiss (l/n)? This girl was found dead just a few hours ago. Do you know her?โ€ She held out a picture of a girl on a metal slab, her eyes shut and skin pale. Taking in the face, you screamed.
Your knees gave out from under you and only Chanyeolโ€™s grip around your waist kept you from crumbling to the floor. The sobs made it impossible to answer.
โ€œItโ€™s her coworker, Dani,โ€ Chanyeol answered for you.
The detective nodded. โ€œIs there somewhere you can stay tonight, Miss (l/n)? Where youโ€™ll be safe?โ€
โ€œSheโ€™ll stay with me,โ€ Chanyeol declared. Those four words made you feel so relieved you were able to catch your breath and calm down just barely enough to speak again. You wanted to get away from here.
โ€œCan we go?โ€ you whispered.
The detective nodded before she turned to her comrades.
You hardly paid attention as Chanyeol drove you to his place, a piece of him you had never seen before. It was a fancy high-rise apartment building with strong security and reflective windows, but you couldnโ€™t find it in you to be impressed at the moment.ย ย 
Chanyeol was patient with you as he slowly ushered you from the parking garage to the elevator to the inside of his apartment. He didnโ€™t stop walking until you reached his bedroom. Without turning the lights on, he rummaged through his drawers and handed you one of his shirts.
โ€œYou can change into that, then weโ€™ll go to bed.โ€ He disappeared into the bathroom after giving you a soft kiss on your forehead. Closing the door behind him, he left you alone for the first time.
It took you a moment to function again. The effort it took just to undress and put on Chanyeolโ€™s shirt exhausted you. The shirt itself was big on you, the hem tickling above your mid-thigh. Before you might have been a little embarrassed with how vulnerable it left you. At this point, you couldnโ€™t find it in you to care. Operating in full automatic mode, you slipped into the king-sized bed, settling underneath the ice cold covers. A shiver tingled up your spine, but you didnโ€™t care. You would be warm soon enough.ย 
Chanyeol came out a few moments later.He, too, had changed, now dressed in an old shirt missing its sleeves and plaid pajama pants. Sitting down on the edge of the bed, he took your hand in his.
โ€œItโ€™ll be alright,โ€ he promised.
You squeezed his hand. โ€œYouโ€™ll stay with me, right? In here?โ€ You needed to know that he was right there next to you, a stronghold holding off the person who wanted you dead.ย 
He seemed shocked at your request, but he quickly gave in, slipping under the covers with you. โ€œOf course.โ€
You shuffled in closer to him. He encircled you in his arms, his hands splaying across your back. His hold was steadfast as you managed to fall asleep peacefully.
ย When you woke up the next morning, Chanyeol was gone. A small note left on the nightstand let you know that he had to check up on something at work but would be home soon, so donโ€™t worry and donโ€™t leave the apartment. While it was difficult waking up without him, all you could do was shrug it off and get out of bed.
Making your way into the living room, you sat down on the couch and turned the TV on to the news. You should have known it was a mistake, that you were walking into dangerous territory. After the weather had concluded, the anchor turned serious. A picture of Dani appeared next to her on the screen.
โ€œTwenty-five-year-old Dani Marcum was found brutally murdered last night in her home. The police are now suspecting that it could be linked to two other deaths: the murder of Jang Jisoo and Kim Kiwon.โ€
Your jaw dropped at that last name. No, no, the death of Mr. Kim was an accident. Wasnโ€™t it? And now they were calling it murder?
โ€œAll three bodies were found drained completely of blood. However, the amount found at the crime scenes was not enough for authorities to say that they simply bleed out where they were found. They are not sure where the rest of the blood has gone. The only theory is that the killer drained the victims and took the blood with him, possibly as a souvenโ€“โ€
The TV shut off and Chanyeol tossed the remote aside before joining you on the couch.
โ€œ(Y/n),โ€ he whispered.
โ€œWhy me?โ€ you screeched, turning to him with tears in your eyes. โ€œEveryone around me is dying and now Iโ€™m next. Why is this happening? Why!โ€
The answer you expected was that he didnโ€™t know. The answer you were prepared to hear was that things like this happened and no one could explain it. But that was not what you received.
Chanyeol took both your hands in his, eyebrows knitted tightly together as he searched for the words.ย 
โ€œ(Y/n), what Iโ€™m about to tell you is going to sound crazy, but I need you to trust me. Can you do that?โ€
You swallowed thickly, fearful of what he was about to say, but nodding anyway.
โ€œOkay. Good.โ€ He scooted closer to you, keeping your gaze locked on his. โ€œ(Y/n), there is a world you donโ€™t know about. A world you think is fictional, but is truly real. A world of supernatural creatures.โ€
You froze.ย 
Then you got mad.
You jumped to your feet and moved across the living room, your voice cutting and piercing your throat as you screamed. โ€œThis is not a joke! Three different people close to me were killed! The same psycho broke into my apartment! And youโ€™re going to tell me it was because of stupid things like vampires and werewolves?!โ€
Before you could blink, Chanyeol was in front of you, his hand over your mouth. That was impossible.
โ€œPlease, donโ€™t yell,โ€ he begged between gritted teeth. โ€œIโ€™m serious, (y/n). They are real. Just look.โ€ He opened his mouth to reveal his two canine teeth had grown impossibly long. They were needle sharp and long enough to graze the skin underneath his bottom lip. Then, they shrank back again to a normal, uninteresting size. โ€œWe are real. The vampire that killed those people has been after you this whole time. His name is Taejo. Heโ€™s not a story, not a Grimm fairytale.โ€ When you stopped fighting against him, he hesitantly removed his hand.
โ€œW-why is he after me?โ€ Proof of a whole secret world stood in front of you. A world that you had never asked to be pulled into.ย 
โ€œI donโ€™t know,โ€ Chanyeol admitted. โ€œItโ€™sโ€ฆ itโ€™s what he does. This sick game โ€“ he lives for it. He finds a target, someone he can play with, torture without them ever realizing it. He kills people around them, dropping them like flies before finally closing in on them. Those people die slowly and painfully, so he can savor every second.โ€ He ran a hand through his hair, letting out an exasperated sigh. โ€œIโ€™ve been trying to find him, catch him before he can kill again, but heโ€™s too fast. Heโ€™s always too fast. Heโ€™s older than me and more powerful. When I discovered you were his target, it wasnโ€™t too late. I could finally do something.โ€
โ€œYouโ€™ve beenโ€ฆ trying to protect me?โ€
Chanyeol flinched, looking down at you guiltily. โ€œIโ€ฆ canโ€™t honestly say that. (Y/n), Iโ€™ve been wanting to kill Taejo for the past two centuries. When I was still a young vampire, he killed the woman I loved before I could turn her, to protect her. After all this time, I have a chance to kill him. He just hasnโ€™t shown his face yet.โ€
Your own face fell. โ€œSo, I was just bait?โ€ You let out a humorless laugh. Of course you were. Why else would he just fall into your life after such a tragic event? Why else would every date, every second together, feel so perfect? Anger swlleded up inside. You shoved at his chest, wanting him away from you. โ€œI canโ€™t believe you! Everything was a lie and you didnโ€™t think about what this would do to me!โ€
The shove hardly phased him. Chanyeol took a step towards you, his hand reaching out. โ€œ(Y/n), it wasnโ€™t like that. I mean, it may have started out that way, but now Iโ€“โ€
You smacked his hand away, scared of what would happen if you let him touch you. โ€œNO! Donโ€™t you dare try to justify what youโ€™ve done! You played with me to get revenge! And I was stupid enough to fall for it. To fall for you! I actually was going to โ€“ ugh! I canโ€™t even believe how stupid Iโ€™ve been!โ€ Tears fell down like rain. You hated how much crying you had to endure the past month. โ€œJust stay away from me! I hate you!โ€
Chanyeol said nothing. His jaw hung slack. He dared to try to step closer again. You stepped back to keep the distance. He nodded.ย 
โ€œI understand. Iโ€™m going to try and find Taejo. When I do โ€“ and I kill him โ€“ Iโ€™ll leave you alone. Forever.โ€ He walked out the front door letting it close slowly behind him.ย 
The hell you were staying here.ย 
You couldnโ€™t go to the police. Not a single person at the precinct would believe who was after you. But you could hide yourself. Pack a bag, hop on a bus, and go far away. Leave no trace behind.ย 
Rushing to the bedroom, you changed back into last nightโ€™s clothes. It was by pure luck that last night had been casual, giving you jeans to run away in rather than a dress and heels. You threw Chanyeolโ€™s stupid shirt into a corner and left the apartment.ย 
While the elevator would have been the better option to conserve energy, you didnโ€™t want to risk running into Chanyeol. He wasnโ€™t in one of the higher units, which made taking the stairs a viable option. Several floors below, you stepped out into a side alley.ย 
โ€œWell, I must say, I never thought you would walk right to me.โ€
You whirled around to find the owner ofย  the sickly sweet voice that had called out to you. Leaning with one shoulder against the high-rise was an older man with sandy blond hair and almost sheet white skin. He wore ordinary clothes like anyone else in their thirties, but something inside you said he wasnโ€™t normal.
At the recognition in your eyes, he grinned. โ€œHello, dear.โ€
Before you could even consider running, he flashed before you, caged in both of your arms and pinned you to the wall. His smile turned impossibly sadistic.
โ€œYou and Iโ€ฆ Weโ€™re going to have a lot of fun.โ€ Taking in a fist full of your hair, he slammed your head into the concrete, filling your vision first with starsโ€ฆ then with black.
**
Cold metal dug into your wrists. With a painful groan, you opened your eyes, the memory of the alley coming back. You were kidnapped. And this place was your prison. Your arms were chained above you, your fingers numb from being above your heart for too long. The warehouse around you was crumbling in disarray. Windows were broken in and covered by rotting wood, holes in the ceiling created by rust. Only the shackles seemed to be holding together. No matter how hard you pulled, they stayed formed in the cinderblock wall.ย 
โ€œOh, goody. Youโ€™re awake.โ€
The sandy haired man appeared in front of you. He raked his long, bony finger down your cheek, the ghostly nail leaving behind a sharp sting.
โ€œChanyeol should have known this would happen sooner or later.โ€ He leaned in close to your ear. โ€œI always get my prey.โ€
You stared him down. โ€œTaejo.โ€ Hatred for this man flared. You wanted to spit in his face, kick at him, drive a stake through his heart. Anything that could satisfy your hatred, even if it was miniscule.ย 
Taejo chuckled as he pulled back. โ€œWhat an interesting approach Chanyeol took, confessing the truth to you.โ€
โ€œWhy me?โ€ you begged. If you had to die in here, you at least wanted to know the reason for all the pain.ย 
Taejo shrugged, as if you had asked why he didnโ€™t like a certain restaurant. โ€œYou happened to pass by and smelledโ€ฆ so intoxicating. Some humans simply smell more delicious than others. I had to have it. And your fear right now makes it even more mouthwatering.โ€
You scoffed. โ€œYouโ€™re insane.โ€
โ€œMaybe so,โ€ he cackled. โ€œBut itโ€™s fun. Especially with Chanyeol thinking he could protect you from me.โ€
โ€œHe wasnโ€™t trying to protect me,โ€ you spat. โ€œI was just bait so he could get to you.โ€
โ€œOh, dearie, how wrong you are.โ€ Taejo shook his head as he folded his hands behind his back. He tilted his head to one side, and then the other. โ€œSure, at first he simply wanted me to see him, thinking I might slip up since I hate him so much. But Iโ€™ve been watching from afar. Iโ€™ve seen the way he looks at you, how heโ€™d watch you as you slept, perched outside your window like a silent guardian. He looks at you just as he looked at her. Which is going to make killing you even more fun.โ€
You refused to believe him. This was another part of his game, nothing more. To give you hope at the last minute, making you call out for Chanyeol to save you before he drained you of blood. You would refuse.ย 
But as Taejo took that menacing first step towards you to start his torutre, he was gone. Pinned to the ground, he struggled against Chanyeol, who had his neck in his hands.
โ€œDid you really think I wouldnโ€™t find you?โ€ Chanyeol hissed, his canines extended, sharp and dangerous.
Taejo laughed. โ€œI was counting on it.โ€ With unheard of strength, he slammed the taller Chanyeol into the wall next you, their positions now switched. โ€œI wanted you here, to watch me rip her apart like I did the last one. To make you suffer before I kill you once and for all.โ€ He smirked. โ€œOr maybe Iโ€™ll keep you around as a pet.โ€
Chanyeol released a monstrous roar that shook you to the core. Filled with rage, he channeled it as he threw Taejo across the room, the latter crashing into a wall of stacked crates. They shattered on impact, a few pieces barely missing you. And then it was a battle too quick for your human eyes to see anything beyond two blurs of supernatural force. You strained your eyes to try and see if Chanyeol was winning. You silently begged him to win, too terrified of distracting him to voice it out loud. All you could do was wait and see who would come out on top. Snarls and hisses echoed throughout the warehouse as they crashed into old crates, crumbling them into sawdust in their wake.
Then the fighting stopped. Chanyeol had Taejoโ€™s head in his hands with a leg wrapped around his torso to keep him steady. Taejo clawed at Chanyeolโ€™s arms with his claw-like nails, but the scratches healed as quickly as they were formed.
โ€œJust do it,โ€ Taejo hissed.
โ€œGladly.โ€
A victorious cry echoed in the warehouse as Chanyeol ripped Taejoโ€™s head from the rest of his body. Every lithe limb went limp as the unnatural life left Taejoโ€™s body. Chanyeol gathered splinters of the crates, creating a small pile before dumping Taejoโ€™s body and head on top. He pulled a box of matches out of his pocket, stuck a single stick, and then tossed the flame to start the cremation. Then he came to you.ย 
He crushed and broke the chains around your wrists. You were free. With no energy left in your body, your knees gave out. Chanyeol caught you before you could tumble to the ground. Sitting down, he cradled you in his arms, cupping your jaw in one of his hands.
โ€œIโ€™m sorry,โ€ he murmured, placing a kiss on your forehead. โ€œIโ€™m so sorry.โ€
You blinked up at him, confused. You squirmed in his vice, but he refused to let you go. โ€œWhy are you sorry? You got what you wanted.โ€
His eyes bore into yours, their familiar warmth refusing to let you look away. โ€œBut I almost lost you.โ€
โ€œWhy would that matter?โ€
โ€œBecause I love you.โ€ย 
Your jaw dropped at the bold statement, but he held a finger to your lips, stopping you from interrupting.ย 
โ€œI know at first, my mind was only on killing Taejo, but you,โ€ he tapped your nose with his finger. โ€œyou silly human with your blushing cheeks and beautiful laughter, made me feel something I havenโ€™t in two centuries. My heart doesnโ€™t beat, but itโ€™s all yours. I understand if you still hate me and Iโ€™ll let you go if thatโ€™s what you want, but please know that itโ€™s the truth. That I love you.โ€
Your mind raced, trying to find the lie in what he said. But you couldnโ€™t find one. Chanyeol had gotten what he wanted: Taejo dead. You were safe again, so why would it matter to him how you felt?ย 
Slowly letting a smile spread on your lips, you leaned forward and placed a soft kiss on his lips. โ€œI think I love you, too.โ€
โ€œThen Iโ€™m yours,โ€ he replied. โ€œForever.โ€
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mysophobix ยท 9 months
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discord kpop 1x1 rp search
heyooo! iโ€™m yumi, age 23, they/them! currently lf a few krp/kdrama partners, preferably within the age range of 19-23+! itโ€™s safe to say that iโ€™m open to any pairings such as mxm, fxf, poly, and trans/non-binary characters, oc x oc (faceclaims ok!) - i will say that i do have a preference for writing masculine characters and will often default to that unless discussed.
my writing style is always mirrored, so donโ€™t be shy if youโ€™d like to write with me in any way, shape, or form! my preference tends to lean towards novella and advanced lit (comfortably up to 500-1k or more) with present or past, third-person narratives. i have some writing examples i can send your way if youโ€™d like to see them before committing to rp with me! i typically want to strive for quality over quantity.
หš เผ˜โ™ก โ‹†๏ฝกหš PLOTS : regarding plots that i enjoy tend to lean super heavily into the human condition (any variation or avenue of slice of life, modern aus), very lightly toeing into supernatural with succubuses/incubus or angel/devils, fallen angel concepts, and โ€œdarkerโ€ themes. some examples would be religious trauma/historical themes, substance abuse, violence, heavy angst, etc.
i also really enjoy media-based or established works of fictions like ao3, video games (the last of us, detroit become human, etc), films, and kdramas (strangers from hell, all of us are dead, the glory, bloodhounds, and more).ย 
iโ€™m totally interested in including nsfw into our rps aswell, though i tend to write my characters as versatile switches and would prefer if my partners were flexible and willing to collaborate to make it fun and comfortable for both of us. i will send a kink list to be as transparent as possible, or you can view that on my carrd alongside other in depth info here!
หš เผ˜โ™ก โ‹†๏ฝกหš MUSES & GROUPS : iโ€™m open to a majority of groups including, but not limited to the ones listed below! regarding muses, iโ€™m very open-minded and flexible and will include some examples of those i muse the most. the starred groups are the ones that i muse very heavily for currently:
โ˜† aespa : winter / karina / ningning
ateez : wooyoung / san / yunho
enhypen : jay / heeseung / jungwon / jake
โ˜† exo : jongin / sehun / chanyeol / baekhyun
le sserafim : sakura / chaewon
mamamoo : moonbyul
โ˜† nct (all subunits+wayv) : taeyong / yuta / jaehyun / jeno / mark / donghyuck / jaemin / xiaojun / kun / yangyang
oneus : seoho / keonhee / xion
โ˜† onlyoneof : nine / love / mill / rie
p1harmony : theo / intak
red velvet : wendy / seulgi / joy
โ˜† seventeen : jeonghan / jun / seungkwan / vernon / joshua / minghao
โ˜† stray kids : minho / hyunjin / han / bangchan / jeonginย 
tempest : hanbin / taerae / hyeongseop / hwarang
โ˜† the boyz : sunwoo / hyunjae / juyeon / jacob / eric
โ˜† txt : soobin / beomgyu / taehyun treasure : asahi / jihoon / hyunsuk
โ˜† xg : jurin / chisa
โ˜† zb1 : jiwoong / hanbin / matthew / taerae
solo artists : woodz, dpr ian, jackson wang . .
(these aren't including my ships, but you might be able to get hints from who i bolded - don't be afraid to ask for clarification though, i'll definitely mention them once we connect).
please prioritise discussing triggers and preferences within the RP. they will always be stated by me during plotting as well. my โ€˜noโ€™sโ€™ are only detailed self-harm/gore that goes alongside it. i'll let you know if I'm uncomfortable at any point otherwise.
หš เผ˜โ™ก โ‹†๏ฝกหš MISC. NOTES : the most important part of this i would like to make sure is noted is that writing wonโ€™t always be a priority for me as i have other hobbies and responsibilities that tend to take up a lot of my free time too. i work two jobs while also taking classes for my university and gaming. iโ€™d appreciate and prefer partners that donโ€™t mind gaps of time between responses and wonโ€™t spam or pressure me to be quicker. i've had some bad luck with rp partners that don't understand that and overstep boundaries. i will end the rp if it gets excessive. however, iโ€™m very chatty and enjoy making playlists and pinterest boards alongside our rp auโ€™s so itโ€™d be cool to have partners open to that sort of connection. iโ€™m always down for friendships outside of our rp too so the gaps of time don't feel awkward or stilted.
if all of this sounds good to you and youโ€™re interested in getting to know me as a potential friend or likewise to write, donโ€™t hesitate to dm me on here or head on over to discord and add me; my username is gyumie. โ™ก
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Supernatural AU based on the Mortal instrument. Definitely everything that we need right here. Oh, also best friends to lovers!!
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psithurism
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genre: supernatural, wolf au
pairing: reader x kim jongin (kai)
part: prologue, i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix
โ€œRight, so.โ€ Jin-Ae pulled you out of the room, Chanyeol trailing behind you, obviously still wary of you being alone with his mate,ย โ€œCare to tell me whoโ€™s downstairs, love?โ€
Chanyeol looked at Jin-Ae and nodded, closing his eyes for a moment before nodding,ย โ€œUh, pretty much everyone minus Jongin.โ€ he answered, and you stepped closer to the stairs, listening to the many voices that seemed to blend together.
โ€œAnd how many is that exactly?โ€ you asked, not being able to distinguish more than maybe two or three voices.
โ€œCurrently downstairs is eleven.โ€ Your eyes widened at Chanyeolโ€™s answer, that meant with you now, there would be sixteen people in the house,ย โ€œI know it seems like a lot, but trust me, you get used to it fairly quickly.โ€
Chanyeol took the first few steps down, Jin-Ae following close behind him as he was holding her hand, but you on the other hand, couldnโ€™t will your legs to move.
You were in an unfamiliar space, completely and utterly outnumbered, and as much as you wanted to maybe trust them, your instincts, still in survival mode, refused to let you do so.
Thankfully, Junmyeon must have noticed your hesitation so he laid a hand on Chanyeolโ€™s shoulder, stopping him,ย โ€œHow about we wait for Jongin to come back?โ€
Speak of the devil, said wolf could be heard entering the house, mumbling apologies to everyone around him as he headed for the stairs, taking two steps up at a time, before stopping in front of you, a small smile on his face as he saw you were still there.
โ€œLetโ€™s go down, come on, give them some privacy.โ€ Junmyeon ushered Chanyeol and Jin-Ae down, while the couple simply laughed.
โ€œThere is no privacy in this house!โ€ an unknown voice called from downstairs.
โ€œIโ€™m sorry, for losing control like that.โ€ Jongin sighed, and you looked up at him, his hair was disheveled from running his hands through it, you guessed, a small smile now on your lips as he grabbed both of your hands,ย โ€œJust, picturing what he did to you and what Iโ€™m going to do to him once I-โ€
You cut him off there,ย โ€œIf anyone is going to get their hands on Tao, itโ€™s going to be Mark and I.โ€
You took a deep breath, trying not to picture what state Mark currently was in. But hearing Taoโ€™s name, or just a mention of him, it made your blood boil, remembering how much he took from you, but thinking of what you were going to take from him brought you some peace, for now.
Jongin noticed your change in attitude, so he decided that a switch in the topic might be the best,ย โ€œYou ready to meet the rest of the pack?โ€ the rest of his family.
His small smile split into a much larger one as you nodded, following his lead downstairs, practically stuck to his back, his wolf enjoying your closeness.ย 
The loud chatter could be heard from upstairs, but as you stepped into the living room, much to your discomfort it instantly died, the living room so quiet youโ€™d be able to hear a pin drop.
Thankfully, Jongin was rather tall so you were able to basically hide behind him. You disliked feeling that vulnerable with fourteen pairs of eyes trained on you.
You let out a small noise of complaint as Jongin moved to the side, exposing you to his packmates, now standing behind you as he began introducing everyone.
You listened as carefully as you could, giving Jongin your undivided attention, as to not forget anyone seated around you, but knowing yourself, youโ€™d forget half the names by the time he was done.
First up was Minseok. You recognized him immediately from the cafe you worked at when he showed up with Chanyeol and another wolf seated in the living room. Seated on Minseokโ€™s lap was a blonde woman, who was more than obviously his mate, Cora.
Next to be introduced was Kyungsoo. You recognized him as well, he stepped into Jonginโ€™s room to help not too long ago. He seemed rather quiet and shy so he lifted a hand to wave with a small smile, as his other was wrapped around an equally shy girl with adorable dimples that showed when she greeted you with a smile and a more excited wave than her mate, named Jiwon.
Another quiet wolf, Yixing was seated on the floor in between Kyungsoo and Minseok, with a rather hyper mate it seemed. Just like Jin-Ae, she had a beaming smile on her face the moment you walked in. What surprised you, was that when Jongin went to introduce her she sprang up from Yixingโ€™s lap, quickly made her over to you and wrapped her arms around you,ย โ€œIโ€™m Ha-Neul. Oh, Iโ€™m so happy our Nini finally found you!โ€
โ€œNini?โ€ you look at Jongin with a small smile, who just refused to meet your gaze, watching Ha-Neul retreat to her previous spot, a light pink dusting his cheeks at the nickname.ย 
Jongin was more than happy to draw attention to his brother, Jongdae, and his loving mate, Daeun. Those two seemed like the type of couple people would coo at when passing by them on the street. Both having smiles on their faces, making you smile as well as you watched the couple just so, enveloped in each other, comfortably so. With Jongdaeโ€™s arms wrapped tightly around Daeunโ€™s front as she sat in his lap, head resting on his shoulder, occasional kiss being pressed to her temple.
A woman emerged from the room that seemed like a kitchen, judging by the tile flooring and stone countertops you could see behind her. The woman though, much like Junmyeon had some feel of authority. The way she confidently walked into the room, eyes casting over all the packmates, as if counting them, before finally settling on you made it seem so.
In the blink of an eye the intimidating look was gone, replaced by a kind, welcoming smile, as she approached you with an outstretched hand,ย โ€œIโ€™m Areum. Junmyeonโ€™s mate.โ€
You took it, fingers wrapping around her slender hand as you shook it, introducing yourself with a small bow.
The last two wolves who havenโ€™t been introduced yet approached you, wearing matching grins as they stood in front of you.
You recognized the taller one, he was also at the restaurant you used to work at, along with Minseok and Chanyeol. The one next to him had softer features, that along with his blonde hair made you think of a puppy.
โ€œAnd those are Baekhyun-hyung and Sehun.โ€ Jongin introduced from behind you,ย โ€œYouโ€™d be wise not to listen to what they say too much. Preferably not at all.โ€
The two wolves in front of you stood next to you now, each having an arm wrapped around your shoulders, before looking down at you.
โ€œActually, I think weโ€™ll be great friends.โ€ Baekhyun shrugged, while Jongin looked genuinely worried.
โ€œThatโ€™s never good.โ€ you heard someone mutter, not being able to distinguish the voice yet.
A silence fell over the large room, Jongin now standing behind you after he shooโ€™ed away the two wolves.
โ€œHow about we get you something to eat?โ€ Jongin asked, and before you could open your mouth to respond, your stomach did it for you, growling loudly, making you sigh and close your eyes as a few snickers could be heard around the room.
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nightworldkrp ยท 2 years
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Souls of Night World,
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Looking to refresh themselves with the use of a Rejuvenation Potion, the being you knew once as โ€œKye Leeโ€ is no moreโ€” Transformed, they rise as someone new.
Name: ๏ปฟKye Lee Job:ย Librarianย  Status: Pet
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1000punks ยท 6 months
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meet me.
hello, get to know me. ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿป (fanfic masterlist at the bottom!)
name: mephi (they/them)
age: 29
i'm agender, bi and i'm poly; and i love screaming about my husband and my boyfriend. i'm also autistic and disabled. it's fine, lmao.
i old school tumblr- this isn't a dedicated fandom blog or anything, so some interests:
ttrpgs: mostly d&d (2e, 3.5e, 5e) and pathfinder
video games: zelda, assassin's creed, ES, baldur's gate 3 (mostly stems from the interest in d&d), fallout
art: i do art, i have art but i haven't posted my art on tumblr as of yet, i do commissions and all that
literature, gender studies and queer theory: the bisexual trinity
folk magic and folklore, and practicing it
k-pop: nct, shinee, exo, super m, tvxq!
vampires- i have a deep investment in the lost boys, that pale elf from that one game, wwdits, iwtv, castlevania, vampire folklore... throw a stake at it, i probably like it
the crow (1993) starring brandon lee
mcr i ran a dedicated mcr blog back in ye olden tumblr
supernatural unfortunately
writing: i can't be sure i'm very good but some people like the things i write so that's fine by me
vanity tags.
.txt: me chatting shit
.jpeg: photos i post
"fic: xyz" : my writing
"oc: xyz" my original characters
others ocs: other people's original characters
baldur's gays: bg3
i'm all pointy ears: astarion
sympathy for the devil: raphael
your favorite incubus: haarlep
bloodweave: two old gays, one is an elf and one is a wizard
hey hot stuff: karlach
the blade stands at the ready: my guy wyll
one with the weave: hello i'm gale
i am fury i am death: lae'zel
wits and blades: shadowheart
release the bats: anything vampire-y or goth of center
speak friend: LOTR
warded bond: destiel ffs
synth.mp4: 80s and synthwave-y of center stuff
let's vapor these waves: vaporwave
k-pop biases: mmmh (jongin), minnie (taemin), bubu (taeyong), man this is sweet (mark lee), fighting heyadwae (lucas wong), we are need coffee (yuta), not my problem (johnny) and yes i'm allowed four biases if nct has 23 members
i wanna be in the sequel: dedicated scream (1996) tag
the santa clara diet: dedicated lost boys (1987) tag
nothing is trivial: dedicated the crow (1993) tag
did i mention i'm autistic? no? you probably figured that out if you got all the way down here
FANFIC MASTERLIST.
bonding. (Astarion x named!Tav)
Of Paradise For Hell (Raphael x Haarlep x named!Tav)
A Wilderness Of Sweets (Raphael x named!Tav)
โšช all of the banners, dividers and graphics i use in my fanfic posts are by @saradika-graphics! please check out her blog!
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galoresficrecs ยท 7 months
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[EXO] Jongin
LAST UPDATED ON: Dec 2nd, 2022
newly added โœฆ || personal faves โœช || ongoing โœ‘
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ratings:
not rated || general || teen and up || mature || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
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โง NOT HERE SHIPS โ˜™
jongin x baekhyun x sehun
โง jongin x junmyeon โ˜™
โœช camera (shy) by curledupkitten [28,4k words] college!au, porn star!au || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
โง jongin x kyungsoo โ˜™
โœช All Gays Go to Heaven by at1stsoo [11,3k words] college!au, post-graduation, clubbing || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
โœช Anything You Can Do by indigomini [13,6k words | 7 ch] office!au, rivals to lovers || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
โœช Cafรฉ Eau Laid by indigomini [8,1k words | 2 ch] a/b/o!au, cafรฉ!au, college!au || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
โœช Darling, It's Better Down Where It's Wetter (Take It From Me) by indigomini [19,6k words | 2 ch] mythology!au, merfolk!au || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
โœช Demonic Domesticity and Other Signs of the Apocalypse by TRASHCAKE [12,7k words] apocalypse!au, supernatural || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
โœช It Takes More Than Ten Tickles by at1stsoo [3,6k words] aliens!au, sci-fi || teen and up
โœช Pay Me Some Mind by indigomini [33,2k words | 15 ch] college!au || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
โง jongin x sehun โ˜™
โœ‘ โœช Get Cocky by MitchMatchedSocks [187,8k words | 38/? ch] college!au, fraternity!au, friends with benefits, sexual experimentation || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
โœช Is That A Python in Your Pants or Are You Just Happy to See Me? by MitchMatchedSocks [39,1k words | 13 ch] hybrid!au, college!au || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
โœช Mind If I Slither In? by MitchMatchedSocks [19,4k words] aliens!au, sci-fi, baseball!au || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
โง jongin x readerโ˜™
99 and Marlowe by kpopfanfictrash [4,1k words] f!reader, soulmates!au, age gap || teen and up
[part of Exordia Academy] Anomaly by kpopfanfictrash [10,3k words] f!reader, 1980s!au, academy!au, powers!au || explicit๐Ÿ”ž
[part of Welcome to the Exodus Mall] Freestyle by yehet-me-up [22,1k words] f!reader, 1990s!au, mall!au, set in seattle, co-workers to lovers || mature
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mxthxbot ยท 1 year
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Jongin as Jim
๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ ๐Ÿ’ 
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โ€œDestiny... destiny is a gift. Some go their entire lives, living existences of quiet desperation, never learning the truth about what feels as though a burden pushing down upon our shoulders, is actually a sense of purpose that lifts us to greater heights. Never forget that fear is but the precursor to valor, that to strive and triumph in the face of fear is what it means to be a hero. Don't think. Become.โ€
๐Ÿ’  Jongin is the first human trollhunter.
๐Ÿ’  The new wielder of Excalibur.
๐Ÿ’  A student of Arcadia Oaks High.
๐Ÿ’  The leader of Team Trollhunters.
๐Ÿ’  Co-leader of the Guardians of Arcadia.
๐Ÿ’  Around his 5th birthday, Jonginโ€™s father walked out on him and his mother.
๐Ÿ’  He grew up with his mother telling him that they needed to take better care of each other, but Jongin has cared for his mother ever since.
๐Ÿ’  Jongin first came across the amulet in the canals, the Amulet of Daylight in the rubble of Kanjigarโ€™s body, the amulet that chose him.
โ€œFor the glory of Merlin, Daylight is mine to command!"
๐Ÿ’  Jongin is shown being the caretaker around the house, cooking meals for himself and his mother.
๐Ÿ’  Despite it being his motherโ€™s job to take care of him, he likes taking care of her because of how much work she does as a doctor.
๐Ÿ’  Heโ€™s an all around cool guy, because he just wants people to like him.
๐Ÿ’  Jongin can get nervous often, shown when he was nervous to accept his new position as Trollhunters and haven never been in a before.
๐Ÿ’  However, when he perseveres and tries- despite his fear- he can succeed in his job.
๐Ÿ’  But as he gains more self-defensive instincts he became somewhat brave to walk head first into a fight.
๐Ÿ’  Jongin is very protective of his loved ones, to the point where he might be considered overprotective.
๐Ÿ’  To keep his loved ones safe, he will often try to keep them out of the fight and finish it alone- taking too many risks to keep them safe.
๐Ÿ’  Jongin is willing to lie to his mom about his toll hunting to keep her from worrying about him.
๐Ÿ’  That always puts a big strain on their formerly close relationship, but Jongin does it nonetheless because he believes thatโ€™s itโ€™s best she doesnโ€™t know or get involved.
๐Ÿ’  Jongi is also a bit of the jealous type.
"For the glory of Merlin, WHERE ARE YOU??!!"
๐Ÿ’  After being chosen by the Amulet of Daylight, Jongin was able to summon his armor and weapons.
๐Ÿ’  Jongin is able to manipulate his armor in any way he desires, including his sword, glaives, shield, and helmet.
๐Ÿ’  Jonginโ€™s armor is made of pure daylight, so therefore possesses magical properties to protect him.
๐Ÿ’  Thanks to his magical armor, Jongin has been seen taking hits that would have almost certainly broken an ordinary person's bones.
๐Ÿ’  After cleaving the Birthstone, Jongin gains the ability to summon two glaives from his thighs, which act a lot like boomerangs and respond to his command.
๐Ÿ’  After faceting the Killstone, Jongin gains the ability to summon a warrior's shield on his left forearm, which protects him from most attacks.
๐Ÿ’  After compressing the Eye of Gunmar, Jongin gains the ability to summon a large helmet, which protects him from lethal damage and Gunmar's Decimaar Blade.
๐Ÿ’  He can also open and close it with his thoughts.
๐Ÿ’  With his sword, Jognin is able to create a barrier around himself to temporarily protect himself from harm.
๐Ÿ’  At his most powerful, Jongin was able to release wave of pure daylight to repel Gunmar and Angor Rot's blades away from him (as well as petrify a couple of Gumm-Gumms and blow a car several feet away)
๐Ÿ’  With his amulet, Jongin is able to detect any supernatural creatures, but limited if they are around his area.
๐Ÿ’  However, given the amulet responses differently with Jongin (due to being human), this ability is usually unreliable and/or unpredictable.
๐Ÿ’  After cutting the Eye of Angor Rot and placing it into his amulet, Jognin gained the ability to ward off Angor's magics.
"What's life without a little adventure?"
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Dating: @hybrid-babiesโ€™s Taemin
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iridescentxstars ยท 2 years
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โœจ It's that time of the year where I try and write a bunch of smut for October and call it some type of masterpiece when really it's just chaos~ So come dive into debauchery with me and see what we can come up with because 'I write sins and tragedies' mixed with good, old-fashioned burning in Hell spice. โœจ
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โœจ Rules: โ€” Max. 2 Kinks per request [You can choose a kink that is not on the list as long as it doesn't cross my own personal boundaries] โ€” One idol per request โ€” Max. 2 AU/Tropes per request [You can choose an AU/Trope that is not on the list as long as it doesn't cross my own personal boundaries] โ€” If there is an idol, trope, kink that you are wanting to request but it is not on the list, please ask me first via DM or an ask off anon (so I can answer privately) or try your luck and see. โ€” I have the right to deny any request at any given time especially if it doesn't follow my rules โ€” I will update the list below with what has currently been requested daily and any requests that seem to overlap dramatically will be combined โ€” If I get too many requests for idols who are not my ults (Kim Jongin or Bangchan) I may delete them as I would like a variety.
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โœจ Who you can request: [To keep my motivation going, I will be limiting my idol selection because that way I know I'll actually get to it] โ€” Stray Kids [Bangchan, Lee Know, Changbin + Han][others MAY be considered] โ€” EXO [Jongin + Baekhyun] โ€” NCT [Johnny, Jaehyun, Taeyong, Yuta, Jeno, Yangyang][others MAY be considered] โ€” ATEEZ [Seonghwa, Mingi + San][others MAY be considered] โ€” The Boyz [Juyeon + Sangyeon] โ€” Astro [Cha Eunwoo]
โœจ AU/Trope: โ€” Supernatural (werewolf, vampire, demon, etc.) โ€” Yandere, serial killer, dark themes [to an extent] โ€” Mythological creatures โ€” Monsters (tentacles, aliens, etc.) โ€” Other AU/Trope MAY be considered
โœจ Kink List: โ€” Breath play โ€” Bondage โ€” Pet Play โ€” Overstimulation โ€” Orgasm denial/edging โ€” Dom/sub dynamics โ€” Master/Mistress โ€” Voyeurism โ€” Exhibitionism โ€” Knife/Blood Play โ€” Toys (fuck machine, vibrators, etc.) โ€” JOI โ€” Oral โ€” Degradation โ€” Praise/Worship โ€” Marking/Biting โ€” Possession โ€” Breeding โ€” Primal Play โ€” Some other kinks MAY be considered
๐Ÿ’€ I will not write for anyone who is under the age of 21 internationally, taboo kinks/tropes or idols who are dating/married or currently in unresolved scandals.
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โ Live life to the fullest. Love hard. Do what makes you happy โž
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[1997.12.10] Seoul, South Korea
๐‘ท๐’†๐’“๐’”๐’๐’๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’•๐’š: Jangmi is a sweet girl who has been through a lot. Sheโ€™s friendly but can be a little untrusting of some people even though she doesn't show it. Flirtatious and giggly, she tends to people please a lot at work but definitely isnโ€™t someone to push too far. She can be rather relaxed and soft but knows how to read people and doesnโ€™t often take shit from anyone, she may cry but she does her best to stand up for herself. Can be rather feisty and needy in heat but only with someone she's very close and intimate with, otherwise she's shy about what she needs and struggles to talk about it.
๐‘ฉ๐’‚๐’„๐’Œ๐’ˆ๐’“๐’๐’–๐’๐’…: A prized possession in some rich manโ€™s collection, Jangmi lived a life of luxury - or so it seemed on the outside. Jangmi was often used as entertainment for her owner and his friends, passed around like a toy, paraded like a show pony and put in her place if she ever stepped out of line. One of the friends took her to wonderland while he made a deal with Irene and before they left, the Devil gave her a number to ring if she ever wanted out. Jongin was the reason for this and while it would have been easy to have gotten her out then and there, it needed to be a decision made by the hybrid herself. Jangmi is one of the few who donโ€™t owe Irene anything, an act of kindness rather than a contract simply because Jangmiโ€™s deepest desire was freedom - something she cherishes deeply and Irene understood this desire. Recently, her life has changed dramatically as her old owner was killed by @doom-bc and she has been granted her freedom completely. This has meant that Jangmi has been doing a lot of things she never could have done in the past.
For a quick fact sheet about Jangmi, click here.
๐‘ท๐’‰๐’š๐’”๐’Š๐’„๐’‚๐’ ๐‘จ๐’‘๐’‘๐’†๐’‚๐’“๐’‚๐’๐’„๐’†: 162cm (5'2); piercings; single in each lobe, belly button. A fox tattoo around her ankle; spends more time half-shifted, fox ears and tail; wears a collar and bracelets to hide scars. While shifted, sheโ€™s a small white arctic fox
๐‘ฐ๐’๐’‡๐’: Jangmi is a hybrid fox who does not know her ancestry due to being estranged. She loves fashion, swimming and being out night clubbing or dancing. She doesn't like obnoxious and overly loud behaviour or when people mess with her head. Jangmi is able to half/full shift into a fox and has heightened senses that come with that. She is extremely flexible and fits into small spaces, has quick reflexes, and can communicate with other canines. She loves small and cute things and has a huge plushie collection that keeps on growing. For her birthday in 2023, @moonlightchn gave her a bunny named Whistler who she loves so much and is now very spoilt and cuddled daily.
๐‘ผ๐’๐’๐’๐’„๐’Œ๐’†๐’…:
A hybrid and shifter are similar but one major difference is that a shifter typically cannot half-shift and are supernaturally enhanced. A hybrid is half-human and do not have the same supernatural or magical properties a shifter has. They also require more energy to remain completely human and not all of them can fully shift.
Shifters are created by magic or other element but a hybrid is said to be descended from legendary creatures and Gods that no longer roam the Earth. Their powers and grace gone over the centuries due to mixing with humans.
Jangmi lives in an apartment that Chan had bought for her, it's become her home ever since she was rescued and she loves it there.
The scars Jangmi has are due to her always trying to run away and being punished by being chained to a wall.
Jangmi does have siblings but she doesnโ€™t remember them nor would she know them if she met them. Her mother gave her up to her master when she was very young.
Jangmi has had a string of bad relationships. Sheโ€™s been abandoned, left for someone else and made to feel like an object to be claimed rather than loved.
Jangmi has had terrible standards in the past but her friendship and dynamic with her Alpha has helped her realise that she is deserving of love and care.
Recently, Jangmi as been spending time with Doom and teaching him about human traditions and helping him adjust to life on Earth. She bakes him a lot of food and has him go with her nearly everywhere especially if she can't have Chan go with her.
More information will be added here as it is discovered
๐‘ฐ๐’Ž๐’‘๐’๐’“๐’•๐’‚๐’๐’• ๐‘ท๐’†๐’๐’‘๐’๐’†: @moonlightchn Chan (๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ’œ) @doom-bc (๐Ÿฅ€๐Ÿ’œ) @shin-haneul (๐Ÿ’—๐ŸฆŠ) | @pillowxtalk Minki (RP)
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Straight. Submissive, obedient. Bottom
Poly
๐‘ฒ๐’Š๐’๐’Œ๐’”: breeding, praise/worship, sensation play, cum play, marking/biting, primal play, pet play, roleplay, exhibitionism, bondage, orgasm control, edging, overstimulation, public, choking, collaring, possessive, oral fixation, oral. Jangmi is very experimental and likes to try different things.ย 
It takes a lot of trust to do more intense kinks with someone. She's very vanilla in the beginning and can be vanilla more often than kinky.
Had never been touched during her heat until her relationship with Chan. He's been the first and only to treat her well sexually and helped her move past her fear of it
While Jangmi is very easily turned on and can seem hyper sexual, her libido is actually pretty average outside of her heat.
๐‘ฐ๐’…๐’†๐’‚๐’ ๐‘ป๐’š๐’‘๐’†: She loves someone taller than her! Tall and protective is what her ideal type is but she also likes someone who can be gentle and understanding with her. While she tends to go for people who will be very dominating in a relationship, able to protect and provide, Jangmi does need someone who can understand that she tries her best to give back but sometimes is unsure on how to do so or reassuring her that she's doing enough for them. Definitely wants someone who will not abandon her
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